Dr Ian McCormickGreen Man, a pagan symbol of fertility.
Nave Ceiling Boss.
Crowland Abbey was a monastery of the Benedictine Order in Lincolnshire.
#Easter #grotesque #monstrous
"Crowland Abbey ... was founded in memory of St. Guthlac early in the eighth century by Ethelbald, King of Mercia, but was entirely destroyed and the community slaughtered by the Danes in 866."
crowlandabbey.org.uk/history/
