# Day 37 Last Judgement

The 19th-century Last Judgment in the West Window of the Kings College Chapel. Doom or "the Doom" was a specific term for the Last Judgement. Dooms were encouraged by the early medieval Church as an instrument to highlight the contrasts between the reward of Heaven and the agony of Hell so as to guide Christians away from misbehaviour and sin. A Doom was usually positioned either on the rear (liturgical Western) wall, if that space was available, or at the front (Chancel end) of a church, often on the Chancel arch itself so that it would be constantly visible to worshipers as they faced the altar during services. Most dooms in English churches were destroyed by government authority during the English Reformation.