Puritanism is the dominant political theology in England during the Civil War, and parish churches across the land are altered and damaged in a wave of anti-Catholic fervour. “Popish” adornments such as statues and paintings are destroyed by Cromwell’s henchmen. In St Peter’s Berkhamsted, there are accounts of medieval wall paintings of the Eleven Apostles and Saint George and the Dragon on the pillars, and these are whitewashed over, probably by Cromwell’s puritans.
Similar wall paintings may be seen in other churches in the area, including in All Saints Little Kimble, St John the Baptist Little Missenden and St Albans Abbey.
