St John the Evangelist, detail of the Byward Tower mural, Tower of London

The Byward Tower mural (detail) depicting St John the Evangelist.

This figure is part of a larger mural created for King Richard II in the 1390s. The mural was painted over, probably in the 16th century, and was only rediscovered in 1953.

A rare and susbtantial fragment of a 14th-century mural that once depicted the Crucifixion of Christ, now more often referred to as 'The Byward Angel'.