Photographs of Pickering Church

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Pickering church was rebuilt in about 1140, but went through a number of renovations and alterations until about 1450 when the nave was altered, the walls raised, the clerestory windows added and the wall paintings commissioned.
The painings were covered during the reformation in the 16th century, discovered in the 1850's but considered a distraction and recovered. They were redisovered in the 1870's and have been restored since. They show pictures of popular saints (St George, St Christopher, St John the Baptist, St Edmund, St Thomas and St Catherine); the Coronation of the Virgin Mary; the Corporal Acts of Mercy; The Passion and Crucification of Christ with the Descent into Hell and the Resurrection between the arches below.
See also Easby Abbey