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I 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...


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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...

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