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  • Well-Preserved Tudor Wall Paintings Discovered Beneath Plaster at Medieval Manor

    11/15/2021 11:17:30 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 38 replies
    Smithsonian ^ | November 11, 2021 | David Kindy
    Restorers at Calverley Old Hall, a medieval manor in Yorkshire, England, recently turned their attention to a “very undistinguished little bedroom,” reports Mark Brown for the Guardian.Peeling away the room’s 19th-century plaster, they were “gobsmacked” by what they spotted hidden below: Tudor wall paintings, likely dated to the reign of Elizabeth I (1558 to 1603), on a scale rarely found in England today.The find is “the discovery of a lifetime,” Anna Keay, director of the Landmark Trust, which is restoring the building, tells the Guardian.“Never in my own 27 years of working in historic buildings have I ever witnessed a...