Thursday, 1 July 2010

Paganism

'There's a face in the screen around the Lady Chapel', said one of the Swanvale Halt congregation. 'The rest of the decorations are all roses and things, but there's only one face'.

So I went looking, and here is the face - a little Green Man carved into the Edwardian (I think) oak screen supposedly based on an original in the church at Bovey Tracey in Devon. I'm not sure whether this little fellow is a borrowing from there too, but it's fun that he's taken up residence with us.
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2 comments:

  1. MissT2 July 2010 at 17:07

    Where do you stand on the argument that the greenman isn't pagan at all? cf Ronald Hutton?

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  2. WeepingCross4 July 2010 at 21:32

    Of course you're right, there's nothing essentially pagan about the Green Man. I was trying to think what to call the post!

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