Dalmeny Church near Queensferry (Lothian)


This fine Scottish Romanesque church in the best Norman style has some superb carved heads on corbels and culs-de-lampe.
Mouthpullers (indicating sexual carnality) are amongst the commonest figure-motifs in Romanesque sculpture, and this is a very fine and
well preserved, bearded example.



Compare with a beard-puller at Cénac (Dordogne).

 

More mouth-pullers and tongue-pokers can be seen here.