The carved stone sculpture in the church

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MEDIAEVAL SCULPTURE

The windows and doors of the church decorated with carved human heads.

Hoodmould stops

 

The beams of the roof of the nave held on grotesque human heads

The nave

 

Strange animals and humans around the top of the tower

 The tower

 

VICTORIAN SCULPTURE

Corbel stones holding the roof beams decorated with foliage designs from the Victorian restoration

The Chancel

The South Aisle

The North Aisle

 

SOURCES

Books

Anderson M D, 1938. Animal carvings in British churches. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Cocke, Thomas, Donald Findlay, Richard Halsey, Elizabeth Williamson, 1996, third edition. Recording a church: an illustrated glossary. Practical Handbook in Archaeology 7. York, Council for British Archaeology.

Givens, Jean A. 2005. Observation and image making in Gothic art, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Parsons, David, 1998, 2nd edition. Churches and chapels: investigating places of worship.  Practical Handbook in Archaeology 8. York, Council for British Archaeology.

On the internet

http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/ICAIntro/ICAintrolongdesc.htm. CORSAIR. Online research resource of The Pierpont Morgan Library. The Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts.

http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/index.html. Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland.

http://bestiary.ca/index.html. The Medieval Bestiary. Including bibliography on http://bestiary.ca/biblio.htm.

http://www.ecclsoc.org/selectbibliography.html. The Ecclesiological Society, Select bibliography: churches, their furnishings, and use.