Sheila-na-gig

[poliphilo]

But one doesn't visit Kilpeck for the Castle; one goes for the church- which is a perfect- and virtually unrestored- little jewel-box of Romanesque architecture- featuring the finest surviving collection of carvings by the Hereford school of masons.

And if one is any kind of a pagan one is particularly drawn to this particular corbel...



P.S. I had always thought the figure was bald, but looking closely at this picture- which takes you closer to her than you can get in actuality- it seems to me as if she has a kind of fright wig of sticky-out hair.

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I would definitely say that was hair.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Odd that I'd never spotted it before.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the angle of light was different this time and thus made the hair more visible?