Travel Poster LT London Underground Chaldon Church Doom Mura...

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Travel Poster LT London Underground Chaldon Church Doom Mural. Original vintage London Transport travel poster for Chaldon Church featuring artwork by Frederick Charles Herrick (1887-1970) showing visitors on a day trip from London in the historic church in Surrey looking up at the historic 12th century doom mural that was uncovered during restoration work in 1870-1871, a rare religious wall painting depicting the Ladder of Salvation of the Human Soul with Purgatory and Hell divided by a decorative band and ladder in the centre, surrounded by figures of people in Heaven and Hell with demons / devils and the Archangel Michael / Saint Michael, winged angels and fire flames, cauldrons and a serpent snake, scenes of the seven Deadly Sins and the Last Judgement with Christ in a nimbus cloud at the top, with church pews in front of the wall and the architectural beams above, set within a decorative frame border with the bold stylised title lettering below. Printed by Sanders Phillips and Co Ltd, The Baynard Press. Good condition, restored paper losses, restored tears, staining, backed on linen. Country of issue: UK, designer: Frederick Charles Herrick, size (cm): 102x63, year of printing: 1931.