Longthorpe Tower, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: the wall paintings in the main room

NOTES: The three-storey tower at Longthorpe was added between about 1290 and 1300 to an earlier house. In the first-floor room, shown here are wall paintings that cover almost all available surfaces. Dating from circa 1330, they depict religious, secular and mythical subjects, along with heraldry and images of birds and animals. See RIBA132944 for a black and white version of this image.