Romanesque carving in the form of a series of animal-, bird-(bird's-head), or humanoid-heads with long pointed beaks (or tongues) curving around a lower roll-moulding, as in a church doorway. Heads with stumpier cone-like beaks are cats'-heads.
Romanesque beak-head ornament, Church of St Ebbe, Oxford. A variant is the cat's head
Romanesque cat's-head ornament, Church of Sts Peter and Paul, Tickencote, Rutland. (After Parker)
