Dr Angela Websdale

Dr Angela Websdale has recently been awarded her doctorate by the University of Kent, where she also studied for her undergraduate and Master’s degrees. Currently working as a volunteer for the Canterbury Cathedral Archives, where she is cataloguing the recently acquired archive of Madeline Caviness, Angela is also a trustee of the Maison Dieu at Ospringe.

About the event

A chapel dedicated to St Thomas Becket in St Mary’s Church, Faversham, was once the site of an impressive scheme of medieval wall paintings that stretched across all three of its walls. Discovered under whitewash during Victorian renovations, and then hastily obfuscated by the large Victorian organ that was placed within the same chapel, the subject matter of these paintings challenges our understanding of the interconnectivity of the cults of St Thomas Becket and St Edward the Confessor in Kent.

Come and hear how Canterbury Cathedral, the Maison Dieu, Ospringe, and the patronage of King Henry III, influenced one medieval Faversham parishioner to commission a painted scheme of monumental images that have a direct correlation with imagery once found at Westminster Abbey and the Plantagenet court.