Little AHssenden, in Buckinghamshire, has good cause to congratulate itself. The other day, when the church was being cleaned, some traces of colour were seen on a wall. At onco the vicar called a halt and summoned an expert. Professor E. W. Tristram, of the Royal College of Art, examined the walls, and found wall paintings of every'period from the twelfth century to the seventeenth. Little Alissenden is proudest of tho north wall of the nave, where in 1320 a medieval artist painted a particularly fine picture (f St. Christopher carrying tho Child Jesus over tho river, and a picture of St. Catherine just as a miracle destroyed tho wheel on which her foeraen meant to torture hor^
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Evening Star, Issue 21012, 28 January 1932, Page 1
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118Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 Evening Star, Issue 21012, 28 January 1932, Page 1
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