Death - Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire

walwyn Wed, 07/30/2014 - 20:20
01/1540 to 12/1550
Sat, 11/15/2008 - 14:36 - Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Leodegarius. Ashby St. Ledgers, Northamptonshire 09/11/2008. 15th century fresco commemorating the Black Death. The figure of Death holds a spade and pick. Note that the manor house next to this church is where much of the planning for the gunpowder plot of 1605 occurred. The manor house was used to store the arms, munitions , and gunpowder that the plotters collected to supply the uprising they hoped to cause.
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This 16th century wall painting depicting death with spade and scythe is on the west wall of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Leodegarius church at Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire.

The skeleton is painted in a reddish-brown hue on a faded plaster wall, with exaggerated features such as a prominent ribcage, hollow skull, and bony limbs. The faint foliage-like designs surround the figure, symbolizing decay or the natural cycle of life and death.

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