The Annunciation : Fring, Norfok (‡Norwich) C.13?

A high quality example of the subject, one of very few still remaining in Norfolk. It is comparable in elegance to the example at Tarrant Crawford in Dorset, and, like that example, it is presented in an illustionistic ornamental frame, in this case an oval mandorla, invariably a sign of fine work.

Expensive colours have been used too; there is quite extensive use of green pigment on the robes of both Gabriel and the Virgin and some light blue just outside the mandorla at the top left. Gabriel stands at the left holding a prominent whitish scroll, his head inclined towards the Virgin on the right. Her own robe is remarkable for the complex folds of her elegantly drapered red mantle, very competently painted.
Also at Fring are a St. Christopher; blue/green pigment has been used again for a painted figure in a carved niche which MR James thought might be St. Faith, and there is a further figure in a window splay, almost certainly another saint, but again impossible to identify now.

St. Anne teaching the Virgin to read, Corby Glen, Lincs	St. Anne & Virgin/Miracles of Virgin, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks	Annunciation/Visitation, Ashampstead, Berkshire	Annunciation, Barnby, Suffolk
Annunciation, Chalgrove, Oxon.	Annunciation, Little Melton, Norfolk	Annunciation, Gisleham, Suffolk	Annunciation, Slapton, Northants
Annunciation, Sth. Newington, Oxfordshire	Annunciation, Tarrant Crawford, Dorset	Annunciation, Martley, Worcestershire	Annunciation/Visitation, Faversham, Kent
Annunciation/Visitation/Nativity, Newton Green, Suffolk	Annunciation/Visitation, Pinvin, Worcs	Annunciation-Fring, Norfolk NEW	Visitation, Dale Abbey, Derbys	Visitation, Salisbury (S.Thomas), Wilts.
The Burial of the Virgin, Pickering, N.Yorks	Death, Burial & Coronation of the Virgin, Sutton Bingham, Somerset	Coronation of the Virgin, Black Bourton, Oxon	Background to Statue, with painted angels, Brent Eleigh, Suffolk
Virgin Enthroned, with angels, Arundel, Sussex	Virgin Enthroned, with donors, Cawston, Norfolk	Life of the Virgin, Broughton, Oxon.	Virgin & Child, with wand and apple, South Newington, Oxford
Virgin & Child, with sceptre & orb(?), Wickhamford, Worcs.	Virgin suckling the Christ Child, Beckley, Oxon.	Virgin suckling the Christ Child, Belchamp Walter, Essex