The Parish Church of Much Wenlock - Part 3
Dec. 5th, 2011 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
endlessraritiesI promised you some carvings from Much Wenlock, so here we are...
The first one is medieval. Goodness knows what's going on here - it looks like two hideous beasts holding water budgets in their mouths... It's built into the south wall of the Lady Chapel. Unfortunately, I have no further information about these carvings. There's reference to carved corbels featuring King Henry III and Queen Eleanor, but these - you will not be surprised to hear - are not the carvings in question.
So unfortunately I can't tell you anything more about them. Perhaps the medieval iconography specialists out there will be able to help...
The second one's very naive in style but its actually much later. It's a carved wooden pulpit of 17th century date which features a green man - this is a surpisingly pagan symbol to be featured in a post-medieval context, but they do crop up from time to time, even in fiercely Presbyterian Scotland (though this one is, of course, English...)
The first one is medieval. Goodness knows what's going on here - it looks like two hideous beasts holding water budgets in their mouths... It's built into the south wall of the Lady Chapel. Unfortunately, I have no further information about these carvings. There's reference to carved corbels featuring King Henry III and Queen Eleanor, but these - you will not be surprised to hear - are not the carvings in question.
So unfortunately I can't tell you anything more about them. Perhaps the medieval iconography specialists out there will be able to help...
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The second one's very naive in style but its actually much later. It's a carved wooden pulpit of 17th century date which features a green man - this is a surpisingly pagan symbol to be featured in a post-medieval context, but they do crop up from time to time, even in fiercely Presbyterian Scotland (though this one is, of course, English...)
I should be going to the Writers' Group tonight, but the weather's a bit dodgy. It's been snowing off and on today, and while it's raining just now, if it decides to freeze later, it won't be fun out there.
Ah well...
Ah well...
