Holy Trinity, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire



We are so used to seeing carvings in chuches which arent painted its hard to believe that once all carvings such as this would have once been brightly painted. In this example remnants of the ancient paint can be clearly seem. I'd love to go back 400 years to see how how churches looked then. I wonder how much details there would have been in the eyes. Would he have had eyelashes painted on.....

The figure forms part of the Sedilia on the south side of the chancel and is actually about 15 cm's in height.







Holy Trinity is open daily to visitors