Mediaeval Wall Paintings Uncovered

Mediaeval wall painting of a lady's head — The Lady’s Head

The Churches Conservation Trust has made great progress on internal redecoration work at the Old Church. Mrs Yvonne Henderson’s legacy provided much of the funding for this work. Workers discovered fragments of 3 mediaeval wall paintings; they called in official conservators to assess the paintings which delayed work.

Work has now resumed and this will leave a lady’s head visible (see right) above the church door. The other fragments are, basically, just fragments and it’s not really as obvious what they are. These will be conserved and covered over as part of the internal decoration.

At first sight, these remnants might not be inspirational until you consider that they were probably painted about 700 years ago!

Upcoming events

Smaller mediaeval paint fragment — Another less obvious fragment

The Friends of St Mary’s hope to resume their normal events and activities after March by when the works should be complete. The West Bergholt Concert Band will kick the 2020 programme off with a concert on the first weekend of April. The Friends plan on issuing their full programme for 2020 shortly. Money raised from these events is used by the Friends to pay for caring for the church and the churchyard.