Abbey Dore - Herefordshire - UK. Once a Cistercian Abbey the church contains three Green Men. This is the most interesting. A deposed roof boss he lies amongst rubble at the back of the church smiling in a shaft of sunlight. The image from Dankar Gompa - Spiti - N.India is a Kirtimukha- like character who possibly has links with monster faces that appear across Asia
Left - Jain Sculpture - New Delhi Museum - India - an C8th head originally from Rajasthan. He is not a Kirtimukha he is simple and plainly a foliate head. Right - head from the pedestal of St James - Ste Chapelle - Paris France
A head in anguish from the cathedral at Exeter - Devon - UK and the more reposed face of the May King one of many Green Men in the Chapter House of Southwell Minster - Nottinghamshire UK
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