This week’s blog is a bit of extra heritage detail continued from last week’s description of the Vicarage of All Saints at Maldon. In the large sitting room of the building there are a number of surviving examples of medieval wall painting. These sections of painting are now protected behind glass screens. They are quite fantastic survival from the middle ages and are somewhat awe inspiring. To think that somebody would have painted them over six centuries ago and that we are still able to view then today is amazing.

The British listed buildings web page notes that: The inside face of the east wall has traces of wall painting of vertical red and white stripes and the sacred monogram IHC in white on a red stripe with foliage ornament. Clover leaf motifs, white on the red stripes and black on the white stripes represent The Holy Trinity. The vicarage is a Grade II* Listed Building: Listing No: 1257084, Date listed: 24 Sept 1971.