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Today for #saintsonSaturday we are in #Buckinghamshire at the church of #NorthCrawley. Today we have a rare saint, seldom depicted in churches in England: St #Blaise said to be a healer and a bishop. Anyway here he is:
today for #saintsonSaturday we visit #Holne Church on #Dartmoor which has a screen believed to have been painted in the early 16th century. The paintings are rustic but no less interesting for that. Here we have #StSidwell, a local saint from #Devon.
For #saintsonSaturday today we are off to #Norfolk to the church of #WiggenhallStMary with a colourful early 16th century screen featuring a number of saints. This image is of #StScholastica . Not a saint we find too often in English churches, she was the foundress of #Benedictine nuns.
For #saintsonSaturday we are back in Devon and at the Church of #BucklandintheMoor on Dartmoor. The paintings are in places crude whereas elsewhere, as in this painting of #StSimon , complete with his saw, the details are keenly etched. The paintings are said to be early 16th century.
Today for #saintsonSaturday we visit #StEdmunds Church in #Southwold in #Suffolk and one of the most richly decorated screens in the county. It dates to the mid 15th century.
Here we see #StPaul, defaced slightly during the 17th century but still recognisable and resplendent.
An unusual "saint" today for #SaintsonSaturday in the form of this painting of King #HenryVI at #Widdecombe Church on #Dartmoor in #Devon
Although the pope was petitioned to make Henry a saint, he was never formally confirmed as one. Yet here he is on a panel among other saints.
Today's rather late #SaintsonSaturday takes us to #Kimbolton Church in #Cambridgeshire for this (slightly defaced) and unusually armoured #StEdmund complete with the arrows of his martyrdom... The paintings probably date from 15th century
Today for #SaintsonSaturday it is back to #Norfolk and the #NorfolkBroads. This image of St #Agnes is from the glorious screen in #Ranworth Church.
The painted panel is 15th century, a vast canvas on which to picture the saints and a riot of colour. A wonderful mediaeval survivor
Today for #saintsonSaturday we have a painted panel of #StAugustine from #BurnhamNorton Church in #Norfolk. Unusually this was not part of the rood screen but one of a series of painted panels on the pulpit, including, appropriately enough for a pulpit, the Four #Doctors of the Church.
Today for #SaintsonSaturday we have this image of #StJohntheDivine from a late mediaeval painting in St John's Church #Glastonbury.
Beautifully executed, probably #German, late 15th century?
Well what with the heat a week away and one thing and another this didn't go out yesterday as planned. But Sunday it may be but this is for #saintsonSaturday
This rather crude screen painting is of #StApollonia, patron saint of dentists complete with tooth. From #Holne Church in #Devon
#saintsonSaturday - our exploration of mediaeval wood panel art - this week from #Hempstead Church in #Norfolk an image of St #Denis improbably holding his own severed head in his hands!
#saintsonSaturday takes examples of painted wooden screens in churches from around the country featuring #saints and #prophets. It is a remarkable and often overlooked store of #mediaeval art
Today this sumptuous image of St #Catherine from the little church of #ThornhamParva in #Suffolk
#SaintsonSaturday today we'll go with a panel painting, sadly faded with the centuries but still enough remaining to see it was skillfully executed.
This is from the church of #MarstonMoretaine in #Bedfordshire.
Not strictly a saint this time, but the prophet #Isiah
#saintsonSaturday today with a wooden panel painting from #Holne Church on #Dartmoor. This is #StJude always depicted with a ship.
#saintsonSaturday this image of saint and King #Edmund (complete with #arrows with which he was martyred) is a screen painting on wood from #StFirmin Church #NorthCrawley in #Buckinghamshire. Probably late 14th century.
This sumptuous image of #StJames comes from a painted screen in #Southwold Church in #Suffolk
The face has been "defaced" a bit by iconoclasts but thankfully it was a half-hearted effort
#saintsonSaturday
