ANCIENT PAINTINGS.
INTERESTING DISCOVERY. IN A VILLAGE CHURCH. (Times Air Mail Service.) LONDON. July 2?. Discoveries this week in a Saxon church at -liardhani, a village ne “ !i. r,' have caused a belief that Ilia church has same of the oldest wall paintings in the world says the Worthing correspondent of the L\cuinjr Standard. .. . .. It his long been known that tha paintings were the oldest In England. In.t il was ttiougllt that tliey were Norman Now it is suggested that tliey "'-rho'paintings are coloured with burnt earth, ochre, lime and snot the iv.iil and south walls of Ihc nave are paintings of the Holy Childhood anil of the Stable of Betlil.h.*„« willi the Child Ji'sim wrapped in swaddling |»an*ls I>in#? "ii the floor. \|t«t\e i- tin* head and neek of a donkey, amt l»e|ow the Sont of Lazarus carried t<> paradise l»y two anpels' In the ehaneel are paintings of \dain and Eve. Aroui i paintings (l f Hu !’•*ur and Twenty Elders, and the Betrayal and Last Supper.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20275, 18 August 1937, Page 8
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169ANCIENT PAINTINGS. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20275, 18 August 1937, Page 8
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