 Painted as fresco in tempera and sitting alongside work by other figures of the Birmingham Arts and Crafts movement such as William Bidlake, Georgie Gaskin and Charles March Gere, Madresfield Court is "not only Payne's most important scheme of decorative painting, but probably the most famous of all such Arts and Crafts schemes".In 1908, he was commissioned to produce a wall painting for the later stages of the decoration of the Palace of Westminster.His work "Plucking the Red and White Roses in the Old Temple Gardens" - an allegory on the Wars of the Roses - now hangs in the Palace's East Corridor.