Entry: Emerging from the lime wash in the Beauchamp Chapel is a ghost angel from former times.
I'm quite a hardened church crawler, but I couldn't help but be moved at the sight of this ghost angel on the blind arcading in the Beauchamp Chapel in St. Mary's Warwick.
It's quite common for medieval paintings to be hidden behind a coat of limewash - often painted over during periods of iconoclasm - such as the Reformation or the English Civil War.
As the wash fades, more of the angel appears - I'm told that the eye came first some time ago.
Member discussion