The retable in Westminster Abbey is considered by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner to be the finest piece of panel painting in Northern Europe. The date is c. 1270-90 and the authorship uncertain. Among Henry III's court painters, however, was Walter of Durham, who in 1262 was working in the Painted Chamber in the Palace of Westminster. The retable shows Jesus Christ and scenes of the miracles he performed. The work is exquisitely tender and the style is close to that of contemporary English illuminators who c 1270 produced work of the highest order. It is enriched by painted glass in imitation of mosaic and by imitation cameos. To the same date belong the wall paintings of Saint Christopher and Saint Thomas on the south wall of the south transept. the figures are nearly nine feet tall and are elongated in the style of contemporary English illumination, like the retable. They are the most monumental thirteenth century wall paintings in England. If they are of c. 1270, Walter of Durham may well have been involved.
Walter also produced the wooden gilded throne to house the Stone of Scone, brought down through the North East after Edward I' Scottish campaigns.