ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two fragmentary medieval wall painting schemes of great interest at the Prior's Chapel, Castle Acre Priory, and Greyfriars, Great Yarmouth. The Castle Acre paintings are in the chapel of the Prior's Lodgings, a complex of buildings belonging to the priory's west range. The paintings on the south wall at Castle Acre have green and red backgrounds. The paintings at Greyfriars in Great Yarmouth are on and within splendidly elaborate tomb canopies, which were discovered as a result of building work in the 1960s. The 14th-century paintings in the Prior's Chapel chancel are executed over a flint, chalk and limestone wall. The 14th-century paintings were applied over a thick limewash ground. The painting supports at Greyfriars are threefold. Paint is laid over limestone ashlar in the recess wall and the recess splays, over a lime and sand render in the tomb soffits, and over the carved limestone of the sculpted canopy.
