A Bible of the poor
Beverley Keen on the restoration of the wall-paintings at St Mary’s, Tarrant Crawford
Published in September ’20
The church of St Mary’s at Tarrant Crawford
SEVEN years after sending Augustine to England in 597, Pope Gregory the Great declared that the walls of parish churches were to be ‘biblia pauperum’, the Bible of the poor. His intention was that ‘… those who are ignorant of letters may at least read by looking at the walls what they cannot read in books.’ Painted internal decoration…
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