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The Triptych at St. Mary, Lydiard Tregoze

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As we have so many photographs of the triptych, we have divided them into sections:

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Please bear in mind our difficulty in photographing this monument - we don't have special lighting, but needed to use a flash or the photographs would be dark. Unfortunately the sheen of the paint reflected the flash, and you will see this on the stills photographs as a white area. The digital ones (closer detail photographs) were taken using no lighting so appear rather dull and grainy; however, using this camera meant we could at least zoom in very close to capture the detail.

We have a few more photographs waiting to be added to these pages.

The Triptych to Sir John and Lady Lucy

It has been pointed out that as there are in fact eleven panels - three panels make up the central picture inside, plus double doors painted on both sides - this is, techincally, a polyptych. Whilst acknowledging this, we have decided to continue using the word triptych because that is how most people refer to it, and is the description used in publications we have seen.

This painted triptych, dated 1615, was commissioned by Sir John St. John (the 1st Baronet, - one of three commissions he undertook) to commemorate his parents, Sir John (d.1594) and Lucy (Hungerford) (d.1598). It is quite extraordinary to view - its size and quality are the first noticable points, followed by amazement at the genealogical detail recorded on the front panels. When the panels are opened (they are nomally kept closed) the St. John family is revealed. It shows Sir John and Lucy knelt on a tomb; to their left is their son Sir John (1st Baronet) and his wife Anne (Leighton), and to the right are the six daughters of Sir John.

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