The Green Man

Green Men are faces sprouting foliage that are found in churches, abbeys and cathedrals. They were popular figures adorning church architecture and furnishings in the Middle Ages, and enjoyed a second wave of popularity in the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival. Green Men are in fact part of the new repertoire of architectural ornament that appeared in Norman churches in the 12th century. Most are masks,demons,or animals, sometimes explicitly asociated with the devil. Richard Hayman discusses the origins and definitions of these fascinating and often grotesque carvings and traces their history in medieval and later churches.

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