Salisbury Cathedral - VI

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	Type:	Spewing beast-head
	Location:	Cathedral of St Mary the Virgin
	OS GR:	SU 142295
	Period:	Thirteenth-century
	Medium:	Stone-carving
	Foliage:	Stylised
	Mood:	Secret, quirky
Description Even though we had been told there was a green man on the base of a pillar in the Trinity Chapel, it took us a while to find this rather small and secret beast spewing its foliage onto one of the great Purbeck marble pillar-bases. Again, we have a dragon-like beast, rather benevolent-looking, but definitely secretive down at floor-level where we can (and did) easily miss him. Also at Salisbury Many more examples of the green man at the Cathedral and elsewhere In the chapter house, a rare example of a triple head In the nave, a fourteenth-century clock, restored in 1956, formerly in the (now demolished) bell-tower.

Design by Black Cat Folklore
Page created on 6 Apr 2008. Last updated on 6 Apr 2008.