Grey Abbey (Down)


The curious and weathered corbel on a shifted corbel table on an early 13th century Cistercian foundation
is a headless figure facing the wall with mask-like heads at its shoulders, anal hole (enlarged by weathering),
and enormous scrotum.


Compare with a very similar and earlier corbel at Sablonceaux (Charente-Maritime)...


...and with a corbel at Lussac-et-Nontronneau (Dordogne)
representing the 'unnatural' sin of performing acrobatics.