Carved creatures...

[fajrdrako]

I found an interesting article online about unusual carvings in a medieval church: 'Forgotten' grotesques discovered in medieval church. But none of the articles on the subject talked about the approximate age of the carvings, or of the church

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[aeron_lanart]

The article does have this to say They've been there since the 15th Century, so it's not really a discovery, but they have been blackened by age and probably by a coat of creosote that some helpful person put on them a long time ago but that's about it.

[fajrdrako]

I was hoping for something about the age of the church, but "15th century" is probably as close as I'm going to get for the carvings.

[gillo]

The article you linked said the carvings had been there since at least the fifteenth century. That area was very rich in the late 14th, early 15th centuries - the boom in wool export in the century after the Black Death meant a lot of churches were built or rebuilt then.

Of course most of our churches are multi-era anyway. Remember that church in Warwick?

[catalenamara]

Fascinating link, thanks!