Double Headed Corbels

Romsey Abbey has a number of double-headed cobels, usually human and often with a headband of a nun's habit. 

There is little knowledge of why they are depicted so, or what significance is attached to them.

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Occasionally the corbels take the form of a human and an animal, and are thought to represent a nun and her pet cat or monkey, such pets were frown upon for disrupting services, various letters of chastisement are known to have been sent by the Bishops at different times to control the practice.

See related text accompanying the cat page.