Holy Trinity, Coventry, Doom Painting
The impressive and historically significant Doom painting over the chancel arch at Holy Trinity, Coventry, which dates from around the 1430s. The dead are shown rising from their graves to be judged by Christ at the end of the world, with St Peter waiting at one side and the gates of Hell on the other.
After centuries of being covered, it was finally unveiled as recently as 2004.
Holy Trinity Coventry was originally built in the 12th Century and is the only medieval church in Coventry that is still complete with a 72 metre high spire, dating to 1432, that is one of the tallest non-cathedral spires in the UK.
The church was destroyed by fire in 1257, entirely apart from the north porch, and the current building dates mostly from the 14th Century. The church was then restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1854.
Holy Trinity, Coventry, Doom Painting
The impressive and historically significant Doom painting over the chancel arch at Holy Trinity, Coventry, which dates from around the 1430s. The dead are shown rising from their graves to be judged by Christ at the end of the world, with St Peter waiting at one side and the gates of Hell on the other.
After centuries of being covered, it was finally unveiled as recently as 2004.
Holy Trinity Coventry was originally built in the 12th Century and is the only medieval church in Coventry that is still complete with a 72 metre high spire, dating to 1432, that is one of the tallest non-cathedral spires in the UK.
The church was destroyed by fire in 1257, entirely apart from the north porch, and the current building dates mostly from the 14th Century. The church was then restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1854.