Almshouse in Dorset discovers its 15th-century Flemish triptych is worth £3.5m

Artwork that hung for centuries at St John's Almshouse in Sherborne will be sold to raise funds for social housing

The blessing of the Lord brings wealth, and He adds no sorrow with it," so says the Bible, Proverbs 10:22.

On Friday, a church almshouse was counting its blessings after discovering that a triptych painting that has hung in the chapel for centuries is a 15th-century Flemish masterpiece worth 3.5m.