MYTHS & LEGENDS

The GREEN MAN & other Nature Spirits.
Leaf Man vault boss
Link to Norwich Cathedral website.

Left:   Detail from
"STORIES in STONE"
by Martial Rose & Julia Hedgecoe.
Herbert Press, ISBN 0-7136-5725-1

An excellent book illustrating the huge number of carved bosses decorating the Norwich Cathedral vaulting.


Right:   Detail from
David Owner's fascinating and well illustrated webpages on the history, origins and locations of Norfolk's incarnations of "The Green Man"


Leaf Man Gargoyle
St. Peter's, Weasenham, Norfolk

And on a similar theme, don't miss the fine collection of grotesques on Paul Gambling's
"Norfolk Church Gargoyles"

Be sure to follow up the various excellent links listed on the above websites.

Two essays on a similar theme, by Brian Bramble
MOMENT in a NORFOLK WOOD
The FORLORN TREE