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Burying the Dead (?The Seven Works of Mercy) Lathbury, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (!Oxford) Late C.14/Early C.15
All the paintings at Lathbury - and there are many - are fragmentary and very confusing. There is though, a subject painted high above the nave arcade which seems to be the Seven Works of Mercy. The photograph at the left shows the clearest part of it, Burying the Dead. Several people, in attitudes of mourning, stand around a bier (it has trestle legs in green) on which lies a shrouded body. The confused details above probably belong to a later, superimposed subject.
There are a few other details, spread over a large area of wall, which seem to be part of the other six Works of Mercy; for example nearby is part of a barrel-vaulted building with a man perhaps in pilgrims garb standing in its doorway and two men kneeling outside. There are also other subjects; one of them, newly on this site, a very fine Virgin intervening at the Weighing of Souls. It was probably related to the fragmentary Doom over the chancel arch, but almost nothing is left of this now.
St. Anne teaching the Virgin to read, Corby Glen, Lincs
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St. Anne & Virgin/Miracles of Virgin, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks
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Annunciation/Visitation, Ashampstead, Berkshire
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Annunciation, Barnby, Suffolk
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Annunciation, Chalgrove, Oxon.
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Annunciation, Little Melton, Norfolk
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Annunciation, Gisleham, Suffolk
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Annunciation, Slapton, Northants
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Annunciation, Sth. Newington, Oxfordshire
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Annunciation, Tarrant Crawford, Dorset
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Annunciation, Martley, Worcestershire
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Annunciation/Visitation, Faversham, Kent
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Annunciation/Visitation/Nativity, Newton Green, Suffolk
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Annunciation/Visitation, Pinvin, Worcs
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Annunciation-Fring, Norfolk
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Visitation, Dale Abbey, Derbys
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Visitation, Salisbury (S.Thomas), Wilts.
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The Burial of the Virgin, Pickering, N.Yorks NEW |
Death, Burial & Coronation of the Virgin, Sutton Bingham, Somerset
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Coronation of the Virgin, Black Bourton, Oxon
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Background to Statue, with painted angels, Brent Eleigh, Suffolk
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Virgin Enthroned, with angels, Arundel, Sussex
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Virgin Enthroned, with donors, Cawston, Norfolk
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Life of the Virgin, Broughton, Oxon.
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Virgin & Child, with wand and apple, South Newington, Oxford
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Virgin & Child, with sceptre & orb(?), Wickhamford, Worcs.
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Virgin suckling the Christ Child, Beckley, Oxon.
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Virgin suckling the Christ Child, Belchamp Walter, Essex
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Death, Burial, Assumption & Coronation of the Virgin, Chalgrove, Oxfordshire
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Virgin intervening at the Weighing of Souls, Lathbury, Buckinghamshire
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28/6/2001
© Anne Marshall 2001