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VII.—On a Panel Painting of the Doom discovered in 1892, in Wenhaston church, Suffolk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

Charles E. Keyser Esq.
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The village of Wenhaston is situated in the north-eastern part of the county of Suffolk, between the towns of Halesworth and Southwold. The church, dedicated in honour of St. Peter, stands on high ground, commanding the valley of the Blyth, and about two miles from the grand old priory church of Blythburgh, to which it formerly belonged. Though not to be compared with many of the fine churches in the neighbourhood, yet Wenhaston church possesses various points of interest which may be briefly enumerated, as they may assist us in assigning a date to the panel painting of the Doom, which, by the kindness of the vicar, the Rev. J. B. Clare, is this evening exhibited.

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Archaeologia , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , 1894 , pp. 119 - 130
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1894

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page 124 note a Journal of the British Archæological Association, xxvi. 248Google Scholar. Ecclesiologist, xxviii. (xxv. New Series), 369Google Scholar.

page 124 note b Historical Antiquarian Notes on Gawsworth Church, near Macclesfield, &c., by Joseph F. A. Lynch. W. H. Massie, The Paintings in Gawsworth Church. Earwaker, East Cheshire, ii. 575. Archæological Journal, ix. 102. Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, iv. 59.

page 124 note c Rev. J. G. Joyce, The Fairford Windows, page 121.

page 128 note a At Bushey church, Hertfordshire, there is no chancel arch, and the space between the rood-beam and roof is similarly filled up with a large partition plastered over, and with the royal arms of Queen Anne and some decorative painting on the western face. Here, too, a representation of the Doom may perhaps be concealed.

page 128 note b Proceedings of the Surfolk Institute of Archæology, viii. 242Google Scholar.

page 128 note c Gentleman's Magazine, ci. part ii. 409. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæcological Society, vi. 262. Blackburne, Decorative Painting, 20 and 73.

page 129 note a Gentleman's Magazine, xciii. part i. 621. Robinson's History of Enfield, ii. 8.

page 129 note b xxxvi. 370.

page 129 note c Neale and Webb, Durandus, the Symbolism of Churches, ed. 1893, p. 46. J. M. Neale, Hierologus, p. 295. Archæologia Cambrensis, 3rd series, ii. 173.

page 129 note a The panel has been replaced in the church, and is now fixed against the west wall of the nave above the tower-arch. This is no doubt the best and safest position for it, as since the insertion of the new chancel-arch it was impossible to restore it to its original situation.