medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Christopher Crockett wrote:
> From: Jon Cannon
>
>> I know one very authoritative current opinion (David Park, who heads
>> up wall painting conservation at the Courtauld Institute) is that Durham,
>> and c11 Winchester, and other of the VERY earliest post-Norman Romanesque
>> English buildings, were unpainted on the interior. I've heard him say so
>> several times, and he's made the point in print, though in a very
>> undemonstrative way.
>
> i like that word: "undemonstrative".
>
> much that passes for "authoritative current opinion" in the world of
> Art Hystery might be described as "undemonstrative".
>
>> I think he'd agree some had whitewashed exteriors (York, Worcester -
>> in both cases perhaps interiors too)
>
> i've never heard of this --whitewashed *exteriors*.
Limewashed, of course. As would have been done for many buildings up to the
sixteenth century.
In the case of York, traces survive from the late-11th century cathedral.
The *exterior* was rendered (lime-plaster) and picked out with red masonry
lines, imitating ashlar. Fragments of these survive for the footings and in
the roofs spaces. See: Derek Phillips, Excavations at York Minster, Volume
II: The Cathedral of Archbishop Thomas of Bayeux. [Royal Commission on the
Historical monuments of England] (HMSO, 1985).
John Briggs
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