Further to my earlier note (copied below) you can access images of the wall-painting in question at

http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/media/9/1/5/1/057-n-chapel.jpg

http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/media/9/1/5/2/078-n-chapel.jpg

Plus a tracing of the conserved painting at …

http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/media/9/1/5/4/figure_chapel.png

We are trying to identify a wall-painting that was uncovered and rescued from St Teilo's church in south Wales, before it was dismantled and rebuilt at St Fagans: National History Museum, near Cardiff. It was located on the north wall of a chapel which was accessed directly from the chancel. It depicts a standing male figure, virtually life-size, facing the viewer. The head (and any headwear) is missing. He holds a rod or staff which slopes diagonally (from our top right to bottom left) in front of him. It is not clear whether this is simply a plain staff, or one with a cross on top, or a crozier. If the latter, the figure could be a bishop. He appears to be wearing a full length costume (white with folds picked out in red/black), but wears a short (dark red) cope across the shoulders. There was a second figure within an adjoining panel, again possibly wearing a short-ish red cope. The paintings probably date from circa. 1500-30.

It has been suggested that our man could be a cleric (because of the short cope), but could he be a bishop? We also wonder whether it could be a representation of St Teilo (patron saint of horses and apple trees and one-time bishop of Llandaff), or, if a cleric, that of Paulinus who was his (and Dewi/St David's) tutor when he was a young man?

Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Gerallt

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