{"id":66,"date":"2010-02-23T00:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2010\/02\/23\/the-green-man-in-abingdon\/"},"modified":"2010-02-23T00:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T00:33:00","slug":"the-green-man-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"The Green Man in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10022305.jpg\" \/><br \/>On Saturday, Tim Healey gave a talk to the Abingdon European Society on The Green Man in Britain and Europe.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10022304.jpg\" \/><br \/>As I understand it, having browsed the internet on the subject&#8230; The Green Man is a name coined by Lady Raglan in 1939 to fit a mediaeval carving. This one is to be found above the west porch of St Helen&#8217;s Church in Abingdon.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06051306.jpg\" \/><br \/>In St Nicolas, on the choir stalls, etched into the wood, are various images of Green Men. It looks like a pagan image to me, but one that people didn&#8217;t mind putting in and round their churches.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07070805.jpg\" \/><br \/>The other example I know of in Abingdon is the stone face beneath the Abbey Gateway &#8211; decorating one of the roof supports.  The surrounding leaves suggest that he could soon turn into a full Green Man with more foliage coming from his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how old these examples are, possibly only Victorian, so does anybody know the whereabouts of any more or how old these ones might be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Tim Healey gave a talk to the Abingdon European Society on The Green Man in Britain and Europe.As I understand it, having browsed the internet on the subject&#8230; The Green Man is a name coined by Lady Raglan in 1939 to fit a mediaeval carving. This one is to be found above the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}