Thursday 6 September 2012

More Books


Here's the first cluster of books, one of my plans is to visit and photograph as many gargoyles and greenmen as I can, and possobly list 60 useful or bizarre things about them. These books are a start.

Bridaham: The Gargoyle book    Old (first published 1930), but a good selection of photos of gargoyles, mostly in France, apparently the site of origin of the original Goths. Given the publication date, I wonder how many have been destroyed. Reims cathedral had some fine ones.
  Sheridan & Ross: Gargoyles & Grotesques looks at their pagan origins, across the UK and Europe with good pictures and enough text to be useful.  Many of the featured churches are in southern England and easy to visit.
Harding: A little Book of The Green Man  is a small and basic introduction with some useful starting hints
Harding: A little Book of Gargoyles  is in a similar vein
Woodcock: Gargoyles & Grotesques  is a bit more meaty, with good photos and drawings, particularly the strange animal ones.  Gives locations of them all.
Hayman: Church Misericords and Bench Ends. Not gargoyles, but many of the same ideas and features. A lot of fascinating background information
Doel & Doel: The Green Man in Britain is a much more solid academic study of many British Green-Man-related customs, something to get your mental teeth into. Includes a useful gazetteer of sites, and precise location.


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