"The faces in the churches are green?"

Not sure what your point is here . . I agree that it has been demonstrated that 'Green Man' is a modern name although some foliate faces (if we're going to get hung up on the nomenclature) are painted it may well have beed they all were at some point as statues and carvings in Churches were often painted brightly in the medieval period. Chances are them leaves might have been green.

Sedayne - Thanks for the link to the Sheela-na-gig site - brilliant. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere there is one in the church near to where we play our sessions and that's not on the list. I'll have to dig out the ref and go and have a look.