Many of the medieval churches of England were filled with colorful murals depicting religious themes, vital in teaching: a congregation which couldn’t read the Latin bible could learn from the walls around them. The Reformation changed all this, as Protestant worshippers with a new culture opposed to such art in a church came to dominate the country, whitewashing the murals. In some places the murals have survived, while in others we are left with just sections. This article from Simon Jenkins of the Guardian newspaper argues that, instead of just preserving the fragments we have left, the murals should be reconstructed as a whole.