The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Piking, a city in the United Kingdom, hopes to have some help in the preservation of its walls, which depict historical paintings originally created 500 years ago.
The church plans to make an offer with the National Lottery Inheritance Fund to help preserve the walls of paintings.
According to historians, it is believed that the paintings were painted in 1470. At the moment, they could be one of only five of these medieval paintings left of their appearance.
After the centuries passed in approximately 1852, the church made some repairs when the paintings were rediscovered. Some areas of the wall are damaged. It has been said that a Victorian Vicar believed that the paintings were more distraction than anything.
An archaeologist at the University of York, Professor Kate Giles spoke to the BBC about these historic walls. Giles believes that nothing has been done on the path of saving for at least 50 years.
“Unfortunately, the Victorians and the 20th Century Conservatives covered them with a preservative agent, they thought they were protecting them from moist, but in fact it was catastrophic for paintings, it stopped them from breathing, attracting a lot of dirt and dust.”
Today’s Vicar of the Church of Gareth Ata said that the wall is a “fantastic asset” and that “it is a real privilege to be Vicar here and to lead a worship among them.”