This "Doom" painting in St Mary's Warwick, is copy (1678), by Richard Bird, of Michelangelo's Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. The left hand side of the work has been restored but the right hand side left unrestored at present.
These two mitred abbots are from about 1327-1330, and can seen in the tracery of the east window of St Nicholas, Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire.
Exorista is a genus of Tachinidae flies, some of the members of which are parasites of Symphyta and Lepidoptera larvae.
The Stratiomyidae are a family of flies that contains some 450 genera and 1,500 species that are commonly called the 'soldier flies'.
The Psilidae are a small family of flies in the order Diptera, commonly known as rust flies. This group contains around 4 genera and 38 species worldwide, with several found in the UK and Europe. Rust flies are small, slender flies, usually yellowish or orange-brown in colour, which gives them their “rusty” appearance.
A genus of "fruit flies" in the family Tephritidae.
A genus of Hemiteran bugs in the family Pentatomidae.
The Hedda stone, in Peterborough Cathedral, dated to about 870AD. It contains the carved figures of twelve monks, and is thought to represent those killed in Danish raids.
This early fifteenth century wall painting of Christ at the Last Judgement sitting on a rainbow between praying figures of the Virgin Mary ⓘ and St John the Evangelist ⓘ, can be found in the Collegiate Church ⓘ of St Aignan.
A common subject painted in medieval churches where scenes of the "Last Judgment" or "Doom". Often they would be painted above the chancel arch. A central figure of risen Christ with the instruments of the passion would be painted, or a crucifixion with the Virgin Mary ⓘ and St John the Evangelist ⓘ.
