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Account of a fresco Painting discovered at Preston, Sussex, by Rev. Charles Townshend, published 1831 in Archaeologia; or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity (vol. 23, article, pp.309-316) View Online
Abstract:The Church of Preston, near Brighton, appears from various indications to have been built towards the end of the reign of Henry III. On the east wall of the nave, on both sides of the arch opening to the Chancel, the Commandments had been painted, which, becoming greatly decayed from damp and age, I endeavoured to scrape away; after removing many thick coats of whitewash and plaster, I gradually made out on the wall, northward of the arch, the painting of the murder of Becket, &c. (No. 1), and on that southward of the arch the various paintings (No. 2).