How Did This Painting Survive The English Reformation ?

How Did This Painting Survive 

The English Reformation ?

Available on YouTube

HERE

In this video, Alan Barton gives a tour of Saint 

Mary’s Mediæval Church, Thornham Parvam, Suffolk.

It is a small, simple, Church that contains a 

masterpiece, a Mediæval Altarpiece, a panel 

painting called the Thornham Parva Retable. 

Dating from the 1330s, the painting miraculously 

survived the English Reformation and the Dissolution 

of the Monasteries in the reign of King Henry VIII.

Zephyrinus read about this captivating Church in a wonderful Article on “Once I Was A Clever Boy”; a must-read Blog, and one of Zephyrinus’s favourite Blog reads, available

HERE