The tower is best known for its English medieval wall paintings, carried out around 1330.Emery, p.475 The paintings show religious, secular and moral themes and the quality is comparatively good for a provincial work.Pettifer, p.167; Emery, p.475 The paintings were whitewashed over around the time of the Reformation and remained hidden until their rediscovery in the 1940s.Pettifer, p.167 Historian Clive Rouse considers that "no comparable scheme...of such completeness and of such early date exists in England".Pounds, p.284
