The Coventry Doom Painting. One of the top doom paintings in Britain

/ Holy Trinity Church/

It is debatable which is the best doom painting in Britain but it is not debatable that the doom painting at Holy Trinity Church Coventry is one of the best. The Art Historian and documentary maker, Graham Andrew Dixon wrote on his website, “The picture must be counted one of the most important discoveries to have been made in the field of medieval art.” He adds, “it is a vigorously scary depiction of the moment when the Last Trump shall sound, painted in a crude but bold style and teeming with fascinating and unusual detail. It is hard to think of a more potent relic of English fifteenth-century dread.”

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Chaldon "Doom Painting" or "Purgatorial ladder" , probably the oldest in the UK.

/ St Peter and St Paul's Church, Chaldon/

Chaldon “Doom Painting” has been featured in loads of books, especially chiIdren’s medieval history books and is stunning when you walk into the church and see it for the first time. It is possibly the oldest Doom painting in the UK, painted sometime around 1200 AD. It is unique, there is nothing to compare it with. Some people have suggested that it is part of the original mural but no-one has found any evidence to support this theory and looking around with my amateur eye, I couldn’t see anything that could be interpreted as being even a small bump in the white paintwork that could be concealing a fragment of another painting. The painting is believed to have been produced by an unnamed travelling monk who went from church to church. The painting is over 17 feet wide and 11 feet high. Only red and yellow ochre paints were used in the painting which again, makes it unusual. It is said to have been whitewashed when Cromwell and the puritans were in power and rediscovered in 1869.

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Salisbury has the best doom painting in Britain. A mind blowing piece of medieval art in the Church of St Thomas a Becket.

/ St Thomas's church/

St Thomas’s houses the largest, most complete and best preserved Doom painting in the UK. It is a great representation about what was going on in the Medieval mind, especially with regard to religious views and teachings. The painting is huge and probably totally different from what you would expect to be on a church wall. It is absolutely stunning or to use a modern overused phrase, awesome. To put it simply, it is a wonderful piece of medieval art and is in excellent condition. The detail and story will entice you to stay studying it for quite some time.

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