A medieval painted chest

Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.

Medieval chests are fairly common in English churches, but painted chests are a rarity. The painted chest at Brightwell Baldwin probably dates from the second half of the fourteenth century. Although it is rather battered this glorious figure of St George still survives.

Eric Hardy got a rather good detail of St George:


He also has a rather good exterior view of the church: