medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Christopher Crockett wrote:
> From: Jon Cannon
>
>> A big C11 church might be whitewashed, or whitewashed with ashlar
>> lines picked out, and nothing else; or even entirely bare, some say.
>
> i'd be very, very interested to learn how we can possibly know this
> --that a church "was entirely bare," bareitity being a somewhat
> Absolute State and difficult to date, as well.
>
> no doubt there *may* be some 11th c. churches with surviving
> whitewash, perhaps even *dateable* surviving whitewash (dateable
> *how*??).
There is a datable example of plaster, whitewash, and red (fake) ashlar
lines - in this case, on an exterior wall, I believe - at York Minster,
where part of the church of Thomas of Bayeux (11th century) was enclosed
within a later structure.
John Briggs
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