A small remnant of former glories.

Combe, Oxfordshire, wallpaintings, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.

Where medieval wallpaintings do survive they are often far from complete. All that survives of this fifteenth century Annunciation at Combe in Oxfordshire is a mere fragment of a once vibrant and lively figure of the Archangel Gabriel. Much of the painting has been lost due to neglect, decay and indifference in the centuires since the Reformation.