English Heritage Goes to the Wall

This month the computerised database of all English Heritage's historic wall paintings comes on-line in an exciting development which will increase protection for these historic masterpieces. Although still awaiting pictorial images to back up the catalogue of information from the seventy English Heritage-owned sites that were surveyed, the database is still the most detailed directory of its kind, covering a time period from Roman Britain to Queen Victoria, and should prove invaluable to researchers and conservators of this relatively neglected art form.