This photo is upside down to enable better viewing.
Remarkably, the 12-bay nave ceiling, which is 86' from the floor, was designed and mainly executed
without fee by two country gentleman: T. Gambier Parry took up the work after his friend H. S. L'Estrange's death in 1862.
They painted the wooden ceiling in situ, on their backs on scaffolding in poor light, like Michelangelo.
The main figures are about nine feet tall. The Bible story is told in a progression from "The Creation of Man," to the twelfth scene of "The Lord in Glory"