Thornham Parva Retable

The retable survived the iconoclastic reformers of the 16th Century, who destroyed many of England's medieval culture, by being removed from its church.

It was discovered in 1927 in a wood pile in a loft at Thornham Hall, belonging to a Suffolk landowner, Lord Henniker.

The Apostles Peter and Paul, who were believed to have spoken to St Dominic, all point towards Dominican interest.

It is believed that an altar frontal now in the Musée de Cluny in Paris was once associated with the Thornham Parva retable as a single decorative fixture.

The retable was returned to St Mary's Church, Thornham Parva, in 2003, following eight years of restoration by the Hamilton Kerr Institute in Cambridge.