Lullingstone Roman Villa Christian paintings

Lullingstone Roman Villa, Kent. The Lullingstone Villas history began back in the 1st century AD but its most important remains date from the late 4th century when a Christian house church was installed in upper rooms at the northern end of the house. Painstaking recovery work of wall-plaster fragments that had fallen into lower levels revealed a panel depicting the Christian Chi-Rho with Alpha and Omega, together with a panel depicting Christian worshippers in an attitude of prayer. The restored paintings are displayed in the British Museum. Of interest to anyone studying Roman Britain.

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• Roman
• Britain
• Lullingstone
• Villa
• Christianity
• paintings
• church
• Chi-Rho