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Passion Cycle Wissington, Suffolk (St.Edmundsbury & Ipswich) C.13
Photo:T.Marshall
Most of what remains of this battered Cycle is at the left, with the Last Supper just off-centre and Christ Washing his Disciples Feet (right, beyond the spiral patterned vertical divider). The remains of the Entry into Jerusalem
are at the extreme left and there is Scrollwork ornament in bands above and below.
The cycle was originally complete up to the Resurrection, and although none of the three scenes is exactly clear, I have included a photograph of the cycle anyway. Elegant scrollwork bands dividing the scenes horizontally show well; these, like the narrative subjects, are painted in red ochre.
There are other paintings in the church; Two Miracles of St. Nicholas is newly on the site, along with St. Michael Weighing Souls, the Nativity/Annunciation to the Shepherds, (showing the Virgin in bed), an Adoration/Dream of the Magi, (with the Magi in bed) and a very uncommon scene of St. Francis preaching to the Birds - possibly the earliest painting of this subject in England.
Purgatorial Ladder, with the Seven Deadly Sins, Chaldon, Surrey NEW
| 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 Jairuss 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 |
King Herod & an attendant, and the Flight into Egypt, Coombes, Sussex NEW |
Christ in Majesty, with Traditio Legis & and illusionistic painted figure, Coombes, Sussex NEW |
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