Gargoyle

Gargoyle
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GARGOYLE, or Gtrgoyle (from the Fr. gargouille, originally the throat or gullet, cf. Lat.

Gargoyle
Originating in Gothic architecture, this is a water spout for roof run- off. Gargoyles are carved human, animal,or demon figures who offer the roof run-off through their open mouths or, in modern times, through winding body parts.
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Gargoyle on Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
Cathedrals in the High Gothic style became increasingly elaborate. Over several centuries, builders added towers, pinnacles, and hundreds of sculptures.

Gargoyle
In archiecture, a waterspout, often in the form of a grotesque.

gargoyle
A figurine that projects from a roof or the parapet of a wall or tower and is carved into a grotesque figure, human or animal.
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Gargoyles: In Architectural terms only the hideous carved creature serving as actual water spout is called a Gargoyle.
Grisaille: A stained glass window incorporating muted tones as opposed to bright colors.

gargoyle - a spout usually carved in the shape of an animal or demon, and connected to a gutter for throwing rain water from the roof of a building. See Gothic Field Guide Spotlight.

Gargoyles: A water sprout terminating in a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal, and projecting from the gutter of a cathedral such as Notre-Dame in Paris.

Gargoyle
A water spout projecting from the parapet of a wall or tower, often carved in a human, animal or grotesque shape.
Glazing Bars.

gargoyle: grotesque spout with human or animal mouth, head or body, projecting from a gutter and carrying rainwater clear of the wall.
garth: closed garden, especially the space enclosed by a cloister.

GARGOYLE A grotesque carving, usually in the form of a human or animal, at the end of a spout designed to carry rainwater clear of the wall of a building.

Gargoyle
A grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal, esp. one with an open mouth that serves as a spout and projects from a gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building.
The illustration, from the Bemis-Ransom House, is not a spout.

gargoyle : A spout placed on the roof gutter of a Gothic building to carry away rainwater, commonly carved fancifully as in the shapes of animal heads.

Gargoyle:
From the French term gargouille, meaning throat. The word refers to sound which water makes as it passes through the gullet. Originally, a reference to the drains atop cathedrals that were later carved into the form of beasts or animals.

Gargoyle
Like corbels and bosses, gargoyles are projecting features in Gothic architecture. They served a functional purpose, throwing out water from the walls of medieval buildings.

Gargoyles
Thomas Becket
Bibliography
Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française
du XIe au XVIe siècle,
E. Viollet-le-Duc, Paris (1858-68)
Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams (1904)
Gothic Painting, Jacques Dupont & C.

Gargoyle
- a projecting water spout, usually grotesquely carved in the form of an animal or human figure.

Gargoyle - Carved figure with grotesque features; often on corners of buildings.
Garland - Ornamental detail in the shape of a band of flowers
Gingerbread - Elaborate wooden fretwork used on gables or as porch trim ...

GARGOYLE
A waterspout carved in the shape of a fantastic or grotesque creature. At Mission San Luis Rey, water gushed through the mouth of this gargoyle into the laundry (lavandería) and into a trough past the working women.

A Gargoyle of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris
[edit] Gryphons, gargoyles, beasts and cherubs ...

Gargoyles in English Architecture
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English architecture did not, of course, follow a rigid timeline, with clear divisions between periods and styles of building.

That way the gargoyles were installed on the buttresses and were connected to the gutters at the base of the roof. They did this with channels along the top of the flying buttresses.

Gable The upper triangular part of an external wall at the end of a double-pitched roof Gable-roof A double pitched roof, sloping straight from the ridge to the eaves on two sides, with a gable on the other two sides Gargoyle A ...

A hipped roof which turns to a gablet at the ridge.GarderobeA medieval privy; usually built into the thickness of an external wall.GargoyleProjecting water spout often carved into human or animal shape.Gauged brickwork ...

Steeply pitched gable roofs
Lancet, pointed arches for openings and windows
Leaded and stained glass windows
Battlements and parapets
Pinnacles and finials
Rose- and clover-shaped windows
Gargoyles
Asymmetrical floor plans ...

festoon, fillet or listel, finial, flèche, fluting, flying buttress or arc-boutant, foil, footing, footstall, French windows or doors, frieze, frontispiece, frustum, gable, gable end, gable window, gadroon or godroon, gallery, gambrel, gargoyle, ...

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