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Garton-on-the-Wold, St Michael, Expulsion from Eden
These wall paintings were executed by Clayton & Bell between 1873-6 in the spirit-fresco technique devised by Thomas Gambier Parry in which painting is done in a mixture of oil and resin-bound pigments onto primed plaster or stone. The cost was just over £3,000, and they were commissioned by Sir Tatton Sykes II (the fifth baronet). The paintings were cleaned and conserved by Donald Smith and Wolfgang Gärtner for the Pevsner Memorial Trust as a memorial to Sir Nicholas Pevsner who had in the first edition of the East Yorkshire guide commented that it was essential that they be preserved. These Creation and Old Testament scenes are on the arcade on the north nave wall.
Garton-on-the-Wold, St Michael, Expulsion from Eden
These wall paintings were executed by Clayton & Bell between 1873-6 in the spirit-fresco technique devised by Thomas Gambier Parry in which painting is done in a mixture of oil and resin-bound pigments onto primed plaster or stone. The cost was just over £3,000, and they were commissioned by Sir Tatton Sykes II (the fifth baronet). The paintings were cleaned and conserved by Donald Smith and Wolfgang Gärtner for the Pevsner Memorial Trust as a memorial to Sir Nicholas Pevsner who had in the first edition of the East Yorkshire guide commented that it was essential that they be preserved. These Creation and Old Testament scenes are on the arcade on the north nave wall.