1200 is a fairly arbitrary terminal date here - many paintings now on the site can be regarded as early, and there are several dating from the 13th century, but I have made this separate category for the very earliest, some of which (like Houghton-on-the-Hill, Claverley and Copford) are unusual in their subject matter or treatment of it and some of which (like the relief carving at Breamore) are sculpture rather than painting but were almost certainly painted once. Breamore, moreover, has a painted background and is in any case too important to ignore despite the problems of dating it presents. But relatively few examples of painting in the parish church survive from this early period, and I will include the others known to me as soon as possible. Some are surprisingly well preserved precisely because they have spent centuries undisturbed below many layers of plaster.

Passion Cycle, Ickleton, Cambs	Painted Anglo-Saxon Inscription, Breamore, Hampshire	Painted Rood (Crucifixion), Breamore Hampshire	Suicide of Judas (later), Breamore, Hampshire	Judgement with Apostles, Houghton-on-the-Hill, Norfolk
Allegorical Joust, Claverley, Shropshire	David overcoming the Lion/(repainted) Knight representing a Virtue, Copford, Essex	Raising of Jairus’s daughter, Copford, Essex	Martyrdom of S.Edmund & other subjects, Fritton, Norfolk	Apostle or Prophet, Little Easton, Essex
Christ in Majesty, Kempley, Gloucestershire	The Three Marys (Maries) at the sepulchre, Kempley, Gloucestershire	The Fall & its Aftermath, Hardham, Sussex	Life of St. James, Stoke Orchard, Gloucestershire	Apostles & angels supporting Christ in Majesty, West Chiltington, Sussex
St. Martin dividing his cloak, Wareham, Dorset	Christ in Majesty, with Judgement details, Clayton, Sussex NEW