Colourful Green Man on Roof of Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon

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The Green Man is a pre–Christian symbol found carved into the wood and stone of pagan temples and graves, of medieval churches and cathedrals, and used as a Victorian architectural device, in areas reaching from Ireland in the west to Russia in the east

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Size: 3744px × 5616px
Location: Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon, England
Photo credit: © K J Bennett / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: architecture, ceiling, christian, christianity, fertility, festival, green, greenman, harvest, man, pagan, pre-christian, religion, religious, roof, symbol