A couple of carvings today, from the famous
Kilpeck church which we visited in Spring 2009. I'm lucky to have several friends who're interested in the hidden histories of these islands - the quirks, the curious, the history from below and the cultural, social and spiritual aspects that have been suppressed or forgotten. They can read a landscape, identify an obscured hill-fort, or lead us to the
Piers Gaveston memorial or
James Whale's birthplace more easily than any of us could tell you about some toff's slavery-funded mansion.
Julian Cope is our guru!
These shots are from
Kilpeck, the Herefordshire (and once Welsh) village whose crowning glory is an
ancient church festooned with strange and often charming carvings including a
Sheela-na-Gig and a
Green Man, the mysterious figures who appear on so many rural churches while appearing to be pagan in origin. Instead of them, I've chosen the dog and rabbit for their charming cartoonish appearance (the sheep is also delightful) and for contrast, one from my ongoing collection of threatening gravestones.
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