The Green Man

Relatives - There are other historic architectural carvings related to the Green Man, these include full length human figures and animals combined with leaves or foliage. The most common of the animals being cats and lions.

Other associated carvings

• purely foliate corbels and bosses
• sculptures of wild men or wodewooses with and without foliage
• foliated hunting scenes
• dragons and mythical beasts
• grotesks

More distant relations may include

• Hill figures

There are of course many sculptures of a more mundane type, depicting ecclesiastic or secular imagery, often in a highly naturalistic maner, but these are not the subjet of this website.