FRENCH ROMANESQUE FIGURES

Agen Lot-et-Garonne (male)

Archingeay Charente-Maritime

Aregno Corsica (male thornpuller)

Arthous Landes

Banyuls Pyrénées-Orientales (male)

Barret Charente

Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne Corrèze (homosexual monks ?)

Béceleuf Deux-Sèvres

Bommiers Indre

Bonnesvalyn Aisne

Bordeaux (Sainte-Croix) Gironde

Bords Charente (male)

Bougneau Charente-Maritime

Brioude Haute-Loire (males)

Bruyères-et-Montbérault Aisne

Buère-Allichamps Cher (broken male)

Caen (Saint-Etienne) Calvados

Cambia Corsica (males)

Camiac-et-Saint-Denis Gironde (upside-down male masturbator)

Carennac Lot

Cavanac Aude (tongue-pulling female & ithyphallic wolf)

Chaix Vendée

Champagnolles Charente-Maritime

Chartres Eure-et-Loir (male)

Châteaumeillant Cher (coupling couple)

Chouday Indre (vulva-puller with serene expression)

Contré Charente-Maritime (acrobatic)

Courpiac Gironde (couple)

Deyrançon Deux-Sèvres

Droiturier Allier (male ape)

Figeac Lot (male being swallowed by hellish beast)

Fontaine-Henry Calvados, plus beast

Fontaines d'Ozillac Charente-Maritime (acrobatic mouth-puller)

Givrezac Charente-Maritime

Graimbouville Seine-Maritime (male)

Guitinières Charente-Maritime

Haux Gironde (male)

La Charité-sur-Loire Nièvre (tongue-sticking simian)

La Libarde Gironde (male canid)

Lorignac Charente (microphallic male)

Loupiac Gironde (male genitals

Lugaignac Gironde (male)

Lunac Aveyron

Lupersat Creuse (male and female)

Lussac-et-Nontronneau Dordogne(acrobatic male)

Lusignan Vienne

Mailhat Puy de Dôme (circumcised ape)

Marigny Allier

Melle (Saint-Savinien) Deux-Sèvres
Melle (Saint-Savinien) (male)
Melle (Saint-Hilaire) (Luxuria)

Moissac Tarn-et-Garonne (Luxuria)

Monbos Dordogne (with wolf)

Montbron Charente

Montmoreau-Saint-Cybard Charente (male)

Montmorillon Vienne (Luxuria)

Montmorillon Vienne (Luxuria)

Montpeyroux Aveyron (male beast drinking from a bucket)

Montvert Cantal

Ôo Hautes-Pyrénées

Poitiers (Saint-Hilaire) Vienne

Passirac Charente

Plaimpied Cher (broken male)

Poursay-Garnaud Charente-Maritime (megaphallic musician)

Puypéroux Charente

Rabastens Tarn

Rânes Orne

Reignac Charente (mouthpulling female acrobat)

Rivière Indre-et-Loire (upside-down male)

Ruffec Charente (female and broken male)

Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val Tarn-et-Garonne

Saint-Contest Calvados

Saint-Denis Paris (crypt: crude squatting female roughed up by ecclesiastics)

Saint-Etienne-de-Lisse Gironde (male)

Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde Charente-Maritime

Saint-Front-sur-Nizonne Dordogne

Saint-Gaulthier Indre (quoin-corbel)

Saint-Jean-de-Côle Dordogne (megaphallic acrobat)

Saint-Léger-de-Montbrillais Vienne

Saint-Léger-en-Pons Charente

Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat Haute-Vienne (male)

Saint-Loup-Hors Calvados

Saint-Palais Gironde

Saint-Privat-des-Prés Dordogne (mouthpulling female, restored)

Saint-Quantin-de-Rançanne[s] Charente-Maritime

Saint-Quentin-de-Baron Gironde (megaphallic male)

Sainte-Marie-du-Mont Manche (frog-headed female)

Sainte-Mère-Eglise Manche

churches in the Salers area of the Cantal

Savennières Maine-et-Loire

Semur-en-Brionnais Saône-et-Loire

Sens Yonne (Luxuria without snakes)

Sévignacq-Thèze Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Targon Gironde

Tesson Charente-Maritime (pair of acrobats)

Vézelay Yonne

Vienne-en-Bessin Calvados

Villedieu-sur-Indre Indre (male)

Villenave d'Ornon Gironde (female acrobat and male)

Vinax Charente-Maritime

 

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FRENCH POST-ROMANESQUE FIGURES

Caussade Tarn-et-Garonne

Châtelaudren Côtes d'Armor (roof-boss: male with tenoned penis missing)

Cleyrac Charente

Jersey Channel Islands

Monpazier Dordogne

 

 

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SPANISH ROMANESQUE FIGURES

Agüero Huesca

Arce Navarra (broken male)

Barahona Segóvia (view all corbels)

Barcena de Pie de Concha Cantabria (masturbating female)

Berrioplano Navarra

Besalù Girona (naked male and female)

Bolmir Cantabria (males and females)

Canga de Onis Asturias (male masturbator ?monk)

Castiltierra Segóvia (megaphallic dolio-blower)

Cervatos Cantabria (various)

Corullón León

Frómista Palencia (megaphallic male)

Fuentidueña Segóvia (couple)

Jubia (Xubia) A Coruña (three males and one female)

Lomilla de Aguilar Palencia (vulva-pulling Luxuria)

Mens A Coruña (feet-to-ears female)

Olóriz Navarra

Rodeiro Pontevedra (megaphallic contortionist)

Sangüesa Navarra (ithyphallic dog, restored)

Santa Mariña de Esposende Ourense (male Dolio-player)

Santa Marta del Cerro Segóvia (pair)

Santiago de Compostela La Coruña (megaphallic male
and female acrobat)

Santillana del Mar Santander

Seu d'Urgell Lleida

Vilach Lleida

Yermo Cantabria

Zamora Zamora

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PORTUGUESE ROMANESQUE FIGURES

Longos Vales Minho (megaphallic squatter)

Rubiães Minho (megaphallic Dolio-player)

(There must be more than this...)

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Alstonefield Staffordshire

Auctioned in Dublin provenance unknown

Austerfield South Yorkshire

Barton-le-Street North Yorkshire (decorative ithyphallic male?)

Binstead Hampshire

Bishopstone East Sussex

Bredwardine Herefordshire

Buncton Sussex

Burford Oxfordshire

Claypole Lincolnshire (male)

Cleckheaton Yorkshire

Clevedon Somerset (seriously defaced)

Devizes Wiltshire (pair)

Donyatt Somerset (wearing a belt)

Ely Cambridgeshire

Exeter Devon

Etton Cambridgeshire

Glasgow (female & possible male)

Gosberton Lincs (male)

Grain Kent

Grantham Lincolnshire (male atlas)

Kilpeck Herefordshire

Kirknewton West Lothian

Kirkwall Orkney

Lanhamlach Powys

Lincoln Lincolnshire

Linley Shropshire (almost-exhibitionist foliage-spewer)

Louth Lincolnshire (exhibitionist male musician playing fife and drum)

Lower Swell Gloucestershire

Malton Yorkshire (couple)

Melbourne Derbyshire (not exhibitionist, but sometimes considered as such)

Northampton St Peter's (various)
Northampton Holy Sepulchre

Nunburnholme Yorkshire (male)

Rochester Kent

Romsey Abbey Hampshire

Southwell Minster Nottinghamshire

Studland Dorset

Twywell Northamptonshire (see church)

Whittlesford Cambridgeshire

West Knoyle Wiltshire (male beast, transitional)

Wimborne Minster Dorset (male mouth-puller, with snake-heads)

Wolston Warwickshire

Worth Matravers Dorset

Wroxham Norfolk

York Minster Yorkshire

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Annaghdown Galway (male)

Auctioned in Dublin provenance unknown

Berrymount Cavan

Clonmacnois (Nuns' Church) Offaly

Glendalough (St Saviour's) Wicklow

Liathmore Tipperary

Monasterboice (Muiredach's Cross) Louth

Rath Clare

White Island Fermanagh

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ITALIAN ROMANESQUE FIGURES

Assisi Perugia (high up on a wall overlooking a street)

Castel Sant'Elia l'aria di Roma nella Basilica, Viterbo (standing male entwined by snakes)

Cefalù and
Monreale Sicily (various)

Cortazzone Piemonte (males and females)

Fidenza Parma (Luxuria - or a high-class whore ?)

Gropina Arezzo (males)

Modena (hermaphrodite ?)

Tarquinia Santa Maria in Castello, Viterbo (microphallic male Luxuria with snakes)

Vicofertile Parma (much-rubbed male)

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PALESTINIAN ROMANESQUE FIGURES

Jerusalem Church of the Holy Sepulchre (male)

BRITISH POST-ROMANESQUE
FIGURES (mostly 14th-15th centuries)

Ancaster Lincolnshire (male and female)

Ampney-St-Peter Gloucestershire

Ansford Somerset (male)

Ashbourne Derbyshire (female discovered in 2016)

Aston Somerville Worcestershire (simian male[s])

Atherington Devon (tubby and jolly male devil)

Ballidon Derbyshire (acrobatic female on font)

Bilton-in-Ainsty Yorkshire

Brant Broughton Lincolnshire (male self-fellator)

Bray Berkshire

Buckland Buckinghamshire

Church Langton Leicestershire (hermaphrodite ?)

Church Stretton Shropshire

Cynghordy Carmarthenshire (ambiguous figures)

Copgrove Yorkshire

Croft-on-Tees Durham

Denton Lincolnshire (feet-to-ears self-fellater)

Easthorpe (Colchester Museum) Essex

Egremont Cumbria

Ewerby Lincolnshire (male acrobat with realistic penis)

Grantham Lincolnshire (male and female)

Haddon Hall Derbyshire

Hereford, All Saints (male acrobat on a roof-beam)

Holdgate Shropshire

Horninghold Leicestershire (male feet-to-ears self-fellator on 14th century tower)

Kildonan Isle of Eigg, Argyll

Iona Argyll (two females and a male)

Jersey Channel Islands

Lammas Norfolk

Litchborough Northamptonshire (crude megaphallic male)

Llandrindod Radnorshire

Lowesby Oxfordshire (male workman with modest but realistic penis)

Margam Glamorgan

Moulton Suffolk (male and female)

Oakham Leicestershire (scrotal male)

Painswick Gloucestershire (male)

Penmon Anglesey

Pennington Cumbria

Ripon Yorkshire (clothed male on wooden canopy of stalls)

Rodel Isle of Harris (male; female)

St Ives Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire)

South Tawton Devon (roof-boss)

Tawstock Devon (impossible homosexual scene on roof-boss)

Taynuilt Argyll

Tickhill Castle Yorkshire

Tilton-on-the-Hill Leicestershire (scrotal male)

Tugby Leicestershire (squatting female on tower revealing nothing)

Walberswick Suffolk (ithyphallic, probably masturbating, mouth-puller with breasts)

Welbourn Lincolnshire (late sgraffito in porch)

Wells cathedral Avon (broken ?Luxuria in a niche)

Wiggenhall (St Mary the Virgin) Norfolk (male, mouth-pulling water-spout)

Woodford Northamptonshire (male on tower)

Woodkirk Yorkshire

Wymondham Leicestershire (scrotal male on tower)

 

Marienhafe Ostfriesland

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Zutphen Gelderland

 

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PORTUGUESE POST-ROMANESQUE FIGURE

Matriz de Caminho Minho (a very Romanesque anal male on a late-15th century church)

 

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SPANISH POST-ROMANESQUE FIGURE

Santiago de Compostela La Coruña (shawm-player on the 14th century Museo das Peregrinacions()

 

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Stanton St Quintin (Wiltshire)
photographed by John Harding
Note the three perforations:
umbilical, cunnic and anal.

 

 

YouTube video of

Oloron-Sainte-Marie

 

 

 

 

click here for a list
of
post-Romanesque Irish
'sheela-na-gigs'