Chiseldon - IV
All photographs are copyright to Wiltshire Green Men
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Chiseldon - IVAll photographs are copyright to Wiltshire Green Men |
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Type: | Foliage-sprewer |
| Location: | Church of the Holy Cross | |
| OS GR: | SU 186800 | |
| Period: | Sixteenth-century | |
| Medium: | Wood carving | |
| Foliage: | Extremely stylised | |
| Mood: | Stern, frowning | |
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Carved in
Spanish chestnut This very unusual green man dates from the sixteenth century and is carved on a panel of Spanish chestnut which was said originally to have been from the Calley family pew. It is now part of the choir stalls in the chancel: look in the centre of the stall on the south side. Although datable to the sixteenth-century, this fellow has an eighteenth-century air with his rolled hairstyle and a hat that looks almost like a tricorne. Also at Chiseldon
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Design
by Black Cat Folklore |
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