Subject index for medieval wall painting in the English Parish church, A-C

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Subject Index A-C

(Every instance of an indexed term has a link to its page(s). Names of locations featured in the pages are in bold type)

A-C D-F G-K L-R S-Z A-C

Abel, murdered by Cain; Cain and Abel-Kelmscott; West Kingsdown

Abney, Elizabeth, banished from York; Warning against Idle Gossip, Intr.
Abraham, patriarch of Israel; The Sacrifice of Isaac-Launcells
Accidie, or Sloth; Seven Deadly Sins, Intr
accretions to the Bible; Medieval Wall Painting; A Short Introduction
Acts of Uniformity (Second Act, 1552); Doom-Wenhaston
Adam and Eve; The Fall & its Aftermath-Hardham; Expulsion from Paradise - Broughton,
Cambs; Expulsion from Paradise- Kelmscott; Adam Delving & Eve Spinning-Bledlow; Moses
with Commandments-Stokesay; Fall & Expulsion-Chalfont S. Giles
Adam naming the beasts(?); Chalfont S. Giles
Adoration of the Magi Infancy & Earlier Life of Christ:Intro; Adoration of the Magi-Black
      Bourton; Adoration of the Magi- Edstaston; Adoration of the Magi-Heydon; Adoration of the
      Magi & other scenes-Pinvin; Adoration of the Magi-Salisbury (S.Thomas); Adoration of the
     Magi/Shepherds - Thornham Parva; Adoration of the Magi/Dream of the Magi- Wissington; Adoration of the Magi-Hardham
Aelfleda, Abbess of Whitby; Scenes from the Life of St. Cuthbert-Pittington
Aethelflaeda of Wessex/Mercia, daughter of King Alfred; St. Christopher, East Wellow
Agatha, St, mistaken for St. Margaret at Duxford
Agincourt (Azincourt), battle of; St.George & Dragon-Broughton
Agnus Dei symbol; Duxford-Cambridgeshire
Agony in the Garden; Passion Cycle - Crostwight, Passion scenes-Ford; Lt.Easton, Lt.Witchingham; South
Newington
Alewives, selling short measures; Doom, Holy Trinity church, Coventry
Allegory, of the state of souls at death; Allegory of Souls - Swanbourne
Allegorical Joust; See Claverley
All Saints, York; The Doom & The Weighing of Souls, Intr.
Alton, Staffordshire; Three Living & Three Dead-Alton
Alveley, Shropshire; Seven Deadly Sins-Alveley
Amberley, Sussex; Passion Cycle
Ambrose, Saint, quoted by William Caxton; Caxtons Story of St. Christopher
American Indians at Stoke Dry; Martyrdom of S.Edmund - Stoke Dry
Ampney St.Mary, Gloucestershire; Warning to Sabbath Breakers-Ampney St.Mary
Andrew, Apostle & Saint; Martyrdom of St. Andrew-Stoke Dry; (forthcoming at) Ickleton;
Friskney- Last Supper
angel(s), angelic; Doom & Weighing of Souls, Intr., Doom/Weighing - Bradfield, Broughton
     (Bucks) Gt. Harrowden, Rotherfield, Ickleton, South Leigh, West Somerton; Passion Cycle
    - Seething; catching Blood of Christ at Crucifixion Rood Group-Kingston; wearing feathered
      trousers, as in Mystery Plays Attleborough; South Leigh
Anne, St, mother of the Virgin Mary, teaching the Virgin to read; Chalfont St.
Giles; Corby Glen; Bradwell Abbey
Annunciation; Life of the Virgin, Intro; Annunciation-Ashampstead; Annunciation-Barnby;
     Annunciation-Chalgrove; Annunciation-Faversham; Annunciation-Gisleham;
      Annunciation-Little Melton; Annunciation-Martley; Annunciation-Newton Green;
     Annunciation-Pinvin; Annunciation- Slapton; Annunciation-South Newington; Annunciation-
     Tarrant Crawford; Annunciation-Fring; Annunciation-Bradwell Abbey; Annunciation-Hardham
Annunciation to the Shepherds; Nativity/Annunciation to Shepherds - Wissington, Suffolk;
Annunciation to the Shepherds/Nativity-Ashampstead, Berkshire; Annunciation to the Shepherds, with Nativity scenes-Hardham
Annunciation of the Virgins Death Life of the Virgin-Broughton, Oxon.;Life of the Virgin-Chalgrove, Oxon,
Antony, Saint (St. Antony Abbot, St. Antony of Egypt); Barton, Cambs; St. Antony Abbot, with St. Christopher and a devil-Winchester St. John the Baptist
apartments/architecture of Heaven; Doom - Broughton (Bucks), South Leigh;
Weighing of Souls - Slapton
Appearance to Mary Magdalene; Passion Cycle-Brook (Kent); Gt. Tew, Lt.Tey, Lt.Witchingham, Peakirk; Risby
apocalyptic writing, apocryphal gospels; Passion Cycle Intr; Doom & Weighing of Souls,Intr.
Apostle(s); Seated Apostle or Prophet-Little Easton Passion Cycle, Lt.Witchingham, Doom &
Weighing,Intr. as co-assessors at Last Judgement; Trinity & Last Judgement, Houghton-on-
the-Hill; Christ in Majesty (Maestà)-Kempley; present at Last Judgement; Doom-Blyth
Apostles Creed; St. James the Great-Hales
Apple, held by Adam; Harrowing of Hell, Pickering
Aquylyne, in story of St. Christopher; A Printers Preface : Caxtons Story of St. Christopher; St. Christopher, with contextual scenes-Hemblington
armour, of the 15th century; Passion Cycle, Little Easton
armour, of the reign of Edward 111; Doom, West Somerton
Arrest in Gethsamene; Passion Cycle-Brook (Kent); Crostwight, Croughton, Fairstead, Flamstead, Lt.Tey Lt. Witchingham
Ars Moriendi/Arte & Crafte to Lyve Well & to Dye Well; Cain & Abel-Kelmscott; Doom-
Wenhaston
Arundel (St. Nicholas Priory); Virgin enthroned, with angels
Arundel Psalter; Three Living & Three Dead, Wensley
Ascension; Ascension-Pinvin; Passion Cycle - Crostwight; North Cove; Pickering; Seething;
Ashampstead, Berkshire; Doom; Annunciation to the Shepherds/Nativity;
Annunciation/Visitation
Ashby St Ledgers, Northants; St Christopher, Ashby St Ledgers; Martyrdom of St Margaret, Ashby St Ledgers; Passion Cycle
Ashley, Hampshire St. Catherine or another female saint, Ashley
Ashwell church, Herts. Warning to Swearers/Sabbath Breakers
Aspergillum Life & Death of the Virgin-Chalgrove
Ass, in Passion Cycle or Nativity; Passion Cycle - North Cove; Nativity - Corby Glen;
Nativity-Newton Green; Nativity-Faversham; Nativity-Hardham
Assumption of the Virgin; Life of the Virgin-Broughton; Life of the Virgin-Chalgrove; Passion Cycle - Seething
Astbury, Cheshire; Scenes from the Life of S.George-Astbury
Attleborough, Norfolk; Christ in Majesty-Attleborough
Audrey, St, alias for St. Etheldreda; St. Etheldreda & another female saint-Willingham
Avarice; Seven Deadly Sins-Hessett; Seven Deadly Sins - Raunds
Azincourt (Agincourt), battle of; St. George & Dragon-Broughton
B
Backgammon; Warning to Swearers - Broughton (Bucks)
Bacton, Suffolk; Doom-Bacton
bagpipe, as phallic symbol; Seven Deadly Sins-Alveley; Ampney S. Mary
Baker, Eve, restoring paintings at Raunds; St. Christopher - Raunds; Three Living &
Three Dead - Raunds; at Charlwood; at Little Witchingham
Banningham, Norfolk; S.George & Dragon-Banningham
Bapchild, Kent; Crucifixion, with Mary & John
Baptism, of Christ; Baptism of Christ-Black Bourton; Baptism of Christ-Cerne Abbas; Baptism of Christ-Hardham
Barbara, saint; S.Barbara - Hessett
Bardwell, Suffolk; Deposition-Bardwell
Barnby, Suffolk; Seven Works of Mercy-Barnby; Annunciation-Barnby; Crucifixion, with 2
Thieves-Barnby
Bartholomew, St; St. Bartholomew & St. John the Evangelist-Selling
Bartlow, Cambridgeshire; Weighing of Souls
Barton, Cambridgeshire; St. Dunstan holding the Devil by the nose-Barton; St. Antony &
Pig-Barton; St. George & the Dragon-Barton
Becket, Thomas (à) St.; Thomas Becket-Hauxton, Cambs; Murder of Thomas Becket-Marston
Magna; Murder of Becket-S.Burlingham; Murder of Becket-S.Newington; Murder of Becket-
North Stoke; painting of recorded at East Wellow, Hants
Beckley, Oxon; Beckley-Virgin suckling Christ Child; Beckley-Doom
beggar, naked, clothed by St. Martin; St. Martin dividing his cloak-Wareham
Belchamp Walter, Essex; Three Living & Three Dead-Belchamp Walter; Virgin suckling the Christ Child; Passion Cycle; The Pelican in its Piety
Belton, Suffolk; St. Christopher - Belton; Three Living & Three Dead-Belton
Bestiaries, referred to; Painted backgrounds, patterns, texts, etc.
Betrayal of Christ; Passion Cycle-Brook (Kent); Fairstead; Gussage St. Andrew; Lt. Easton
Ickleton, Peakirk; Pickering
Bible, Biblical; Passion Cycle, Intr, Passion Cycle - Lt. Witchingham; Doom & Weighing Intr.
Biblia Pauperum (& Typology); Annunciation-Chalgrove; Genesis scenes, intro
Bishopsbourne, Kent; Martyrdom of St. Edmund; Weighing of Souls; St. Nicholas & the Three Boys-Bishopsbourne
Black Bourton, Oxon; Adoration of the Magi-Black Bourton; Baptism of Christ-Black
Bourton; Coronation of the Virgin-Black Bourton; SS. Peter & Paul-Black Bourton; Stoning of Stephen-Black Bourton
Black Death; Warning to Swearers/Sabbath Breakers; Intro.
Black Mass; Women & Devils - Melbourne
Black Prince, the, possibly alluded to; Hornton
Blacksmiths tools; St.Eloi-Broughton; St. Dunstan holding the Devil by the nose-Barton
Bledlow; Adam Delving & Eve Spinning-Bledlow
Blood of Christ at Crucifixion, angels catching; Rood Group-Kingston
Blyth, Nottinghamshire Doom-Blyth
Boethius (Consolation of Philosophy); Wheel of Fortune-Ilketshall
Bohemia; St. Christopher, Short Intr.
Books of Hours; Three Living & Three Dead, Intr; Rood Group-Kingston
Border Ballad; Seven Works of Mercy, Intr.
Bosch, Hieronymus; Women & Devils, Melbourne
Boughton Aluph, Kent; Trinity-Boughton Aluph
Boxford, Suffolk; St. Edmund-Boxford
Bradfield, Norfolk; Doom
Bradwell Abbey, Buckinghamshire; Annunciation-Bradwell Abbey
Bread, Assize of; Seven Deadly Sins-Hessett
Breage, Cornwall; Warning to Sabbath Breakers
Breamore, Hants: Saxon carved Rood-Breamore, Anglo-Saxon inscription-Breamore, Suicide of Judas-Breamore
breasts, bared by Virgin Mary; Doom - Ickleton; Doom - North Cove
Brent Eleigh, Suffolk; Crucifixion-Brent Eleigh; statue (not extant) of Virgin at, painted angels Brent Eleigh; Harrowing of Hell, with donor (?)Brent Eleigh
Bridale, John, vicar of Wood Dalling, painted as donor; Virgin Enthroned, Cawston
Bridget of Sweden, St., revelations of; Adoration of the Magi-Salisbury (S.Thomas)
Brigg o� Dread; Seven Works of Mercy, Intr.
Bromholm, Holy Rood of; St. James the Great-Hales
Brook (Kent); Passion Cycle; Raising of Lazarus & Raising of Jairuss Daughter;
Infancy Cycle
Broughton (Bucks); Doom; Warning to Swearers; St.George & Dragon; St.Helena; St.Eloi
Broughton, (Cambs); Doom; Expulsion from Paradise; Adam Delving & Eve Spinning
Broughton, (Oxon.); Crucifixion painted on pillar; Life of the Virgin
Buffeting; Passion Cycle - Lt. Witchingham, Peakirk; South Newington
Burgundy; Seven Works of Mercy - Moulton St. Mary
Burial of Christ; Passion Cycle - Lt. Easton; Passion Cycle-Pickering
Burial of the Virgin; Life of the Virgin-Broughton; Death, Burial & Coronation of the Virgin- Sutton Bingham; Life & Death of the Virgin-Chalgrove
Burnham Overy, Norfolk; St. Christopher-Burnham Overy
Burton Dassett, Warwickshire; Three Magi-Burton Dassett
Burton Latimer; Martyrdom of S. Catherine; Levi, patriarch of Israel
Burying the Dead; Seven Works of Mercy, Intr.; Seven Works of Mercy-Lathbury; Seven Works
of Mercy-Moulton St.Mary; Seven Works of Mercy-Pickering; Seven Works of Mercy-
Wickhampton
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Caedmon MS, (Bodleian Library); The Fall & its Aftermath-Hardham
Cain, murdering Abel; Cain and Abel-Kelmscott; Story of Cain & Abel, West Kingsdown; as suckling infant? Adam delving & Eve spinning-Bledlow
Cantigas de Sancta Maria (Iberian collection of legends about the Virgin Mary); Life & Miracles of the Virgin-Chalfont St. Giles
Caritas/Charity; Seven Works of Mercy - Edingthorpe; Seven Works of Mercy-Trotton;
casein, as ground for painting; Medieval Wall Painting:Short Intr.
Castor, Cambs.; St.Catherine, life of-Castor
Catesby family St. Christopher, Ashby St. Ledgers
Catfield, Norfolk; Stoning of Stephen-Catfield
Catherine, St St.Catherine, life of-Castor; St. Catherine-Hardley Street; St. Catherine-Old Weston; St. Catherine, life of-Sporle; Burial of St. Catherine-Little Kimble; Heydon (as single figure?); with Virgin & Child, SS Margaret & Mary Magdalene-Little Wenham; Cold Overton; St. Catherine-Pickering
cat-o-nine tails scourge; Passion Cycle-North Cove; Martyrdom of St Margaret-Ashby St Ledgers
Catherington, Hampshire; S. Michael Weighing Souls-Catherington
Cawston, Norfolk; Virgin Enthroned, with donors-Cawston
Caxton, story of St. Christopher; A Printers Preface : Wm. Caxtons Story of St. Christopher
Chacombe, Northamptonshire; Martyrdom of St. Peter
Chaldon, Surrey; Purgatorial Ladder, with the Seven Deadly Sins
Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire; Life & Miracles of the Virgin-Chalfont St. Giles;
Herods Feast/Decollation of John the Baptist-Chalfont St. Giles; Creation of the Animals/Fall
& Expulsion-Chalfont S. Giles
Chalgrave, Bedfordshire; St. Martin dividing his cloak
Chalgrove, Oxfordshire; Tree of Jesse; Annunciation; Life & Death of the Virgin; Passion scenes-Chalgrove
chancel; Tree of Jesse-Chalgrove; Passion Cycle - North Cove; Doom & Weighing of Souls,Intr.
Chancel Arch; Passion Cycle-Fairstead, Ickleton; Doom/Weighing of Souls, Intr.; Doom- Bradfield, Gt. Harrowden, Ickleton, South Leigh; Weighing of Souls-Rotherfield
Charity (as Cardinal Virtue), see Caritas
Charlwood, Surrey; Life of St. Margaret-Charlwood; Three Living & Three Dead-Charlwood
Charlemagne; Charlemagnes Dream of S. Cyriacus-Hardwick
Chaucer, Geoffrey (Canterbury Tales); Seven Deadly Sins, Intr; Warning to Swearers-Broughton (Bucks)
Chelsworth, Suffolk; Doom-Chelsworth
Cherub; Doom - Broughton (Bucks)
Chesterton, Cambridgeshire; Doom-Chesterton
Chichester Cathedral & Chichester Roundel; Coronation of the Virgin-Black Bourton
Chippenham, Cambridgeshire; Martyrdom of St. Erasmus-Chippenham
Christ as Piers Plowman Warning to Swearers/Sabbath Breakers
Christ of the Trades - See above - Christ as Piers Plowman
Christ Among the Doctors (see Dispute with the Doctors)
Christ Before Pilate; Passion Cycle - Fairstead, Flamstead; Gussage St. Andrew; Lt. Easton; Pickering
Christ Child, Child; Adoration of the Magi - Black Bourton; Nativity - Corby Glen; Nativity-Little Wakering; St.Christopher Contents (& Links to all St. Christopher Pages); Caxtons Story of St.Christopher; St.Christopher, Short Intro;
Christ in Majesty (Maestà); Christ in Majesty-Attleborough; Christ in Majesty-Houghton Conquest; Christ in Majesty-Kempley; Angels & saints supporting Christ in Majesty-West Chiltington; Christ in Majesty, with Judgement details-Clayton; Christ in Majesty, with Traditio Legis and an illusionistic painted figure-Coombes
Christian history; Medieval Wall Painting - Short Introduction
Christopher, St; St.Christopher Contents Page (with Links to all St.Christopher Pages)
Church Calendar; St. Christopher, Intr.
The Churches Conservation Trust; Doom - Broughton (Bucks); Seven Works of Mercy-Moulton St Mary
Citha, St. (see Zita)
Claverley, Shropshire, allegorical frieze at; Allegorical Joust-Claverley
Clayton, Sussex; Christ in Majesty, with Judgement details
Clay Birds - see Miracle of the Clay Birds
Clement, Saint & Pope; St. Clement-South Leigh
Clothing the Naked; Seven Works of Mercy, Intr;; 7 Works-Hoxne; 7 Works-Linkinhorne
7 Works-Moulton St.Mary; 7 Works-Pickering; 7 Works-Trotton
Clouds, band of, replacing rainbow in Doom; Doom-Newington
Cluniac influence in English painting; Christ in Majesty-Clayton
Cold Overton, Leicestershire St. Catherine of Alexandria-Cold Overton; Gathering of the Apostles for the Funeral of the Virgin-Cold Overton
Colton, Norfolk Warning against Idle Gossip-Colton
Compostela, Spain, shrine to St. James at; Yelden
Consecration, of Cuthbert as bishop; Pittington
Consecration Cross; Passion Cycle - Crostwight [Photo]
Consecration of Labour Warning to Swearers/Sabbath Breakers, Intro; Warning to Sabbath Breakers-Duxford; Warning to Sabbath Breakers-Michaelchurch Escley
Consolation of Philosophy; see Boethius
Continental mural painters, possibly working in England; Three Living & Three Dead-Belton
Coombes, Sussex Christ in Majesty, with Traditio Legis and an illusionistic painted figure-Coombes
Copford, Essex; David overcoming the Lion-Copford; The Raising of Jairuss Daughter-Copford
Coquet Island; meeting-place of Abbess Aelfleda and St. Cuthbert Scenes from the Life of St. Cuthbert-Pittington
Corby Glen, Lincs; Nativity - Corby Glen; St. Anne teaching the Virgin to read-Corby Glen; King Herod, with other Nativity scenes-Corby Glen
Corhampton, Hampshire; St. Swithun and the miracle of the broken eggs
Coronation of the Virgin; Black Bourton-Coronation; Life of the Virgin-Broughton, Oxon; Sutton Bingham-Coronation of the Virgin; Life & Death of the Virgin-Chalgrove misidentified at Seething; Passion Cycle - Seething
Coronation of the Virgin by the Trinity, referred to; Black Bourton-Coronation;
Cottered, Hertfordshire; St. Christopher, with buildings & landscape details-Cottered
Council of Trent; St.Christopher Intr;
Coventry, Holy Trinity Church, Warwickshire Doom-Holy Trinity, Coventry
Crescent Moon, Virgin Mary standing on; Weighing of Souls, South Leigh
Cranborne, Dorset; 7 Deadly Sins-Cranborne
Creation of the Animals(?); Chalfont S. Giles
Cristofori faciem die quacunque tueris/Illa nempe die morte mala non morieris, etc; St. Christopher Intr.
Crockfords Clerical Directory; General information & Feedback Page
Cross; Doom & Weighing of Souls, Contents; St. Christopher Intr; A Printers Preface : Wm.Caxtons Story of St. Christopher; St. Christopher - Shorwell
Crostwight, Norfolk Passion Cycle, Intr; Passion Cycle - Crostwight ; Seven Deadly Sins -Crostwight
Croughton, Northants; Flight into Egypt/Massacre of the Innocents - Croughton; Passion Cycle-Croughton
Crown of Thorns, Crowning with Thorns; Passion Cycle - Fairstead, Flamstead; Great Tew;
Gussage St. Andrew; Lt. Witchingham; Doom & Weighing of Souls, Contents
Crucifixion - as part of Passion Cycle; Passion Cycle - Crostwight, Passion Cycle-Croughton; Flamstead , Gt.Tew,
Gussage St. Andrew; Lt.Easton; Lt.Tey, Lt.Witchingham, North Cove, Peakirk; Pinvin;
Seething; South Newington
Crucifixion, Detached Bapchild; Barnby, Brent Eleigh; Broughton (Oxon); Godshill, IOW; Goxhill; Little Missenden; Turvey; Wisborough Green
Crucifixion, of St. Peter; Chacombe
Cuthbert, St; Scenes from the Life of St. Cuthbert-Pittington
Cyriacus or Cyr, saint; Charlemagnes Dream of S. Cyriacus-Hardwick
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