This unique painting by Miss Mary Henrietta Dering Curtois (1854-1928) hangs on the wall of the North Transept of the Church and was presented by the Artist to St. Mary’s in 1907. It is unusual in two aspects, one of which is that it is an early form of a montage, being a combination of sheet metal and canvas. The second is that it depicts ‘children of Whaplode,’ at the time of the painting, who formed the supporting figures surrounding the figure of Christ, and of personal interest to the Artist was the fact that the face of the central angel, with distinct black hair, in the foreground, represents an early portrait of her mother.
