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Passion Cycle, Flamstead, Herts (‡St.Albans) C.14

Passion Cycle, Flamstead, detail, Crucifixion, Last Supper above [74KB] This is one of the clearer scenes from the very full Passion Cycle on the North Aisle wall at Flamstead. Most of the others are very faint, but I will include some of them here in due course.
Shown at the left is the Crucifixion, a very dramatically-realised scene in which Christ’s body is thrust forward towards the onlooker. Faint traces of figures of Mary and John are visible on either side, and above the Crucifixion is what looks like the Last Supper.

Flamstead had an extensive painted scheme once, including a painting of the Three Living and the Three Dead, and bands of decorative abstract pattern where subject painting was difficult, for example on the underside of the nave arches. Parishioners added their own decoration too - there is a very competent incised ‘scratching’ of a medieval ship on a pillar in the South Aisle

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Peakirk,Northants Pickering, N. Yorks Pinvin, Worcs Seething, Norfolk South Newington, Oxfordshire West Chiltington, Sussex
Wissington, Suffolk

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