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.
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.
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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.
The gargoyles on the Woolworth Building caricature Gilbert, Woolworth, and other famous people.
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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.
Interestingly, gargoyles which are more popularly known as a Gothic motif are rare in Gothic Revival but found frequently in Romanesque Revival.
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[edit] Gryphons, gargoyles, beasts and cherubs
Cathedrals are decorated with a wide variety of creatures and characters, many of which have no obvious link to Christianity.
Gargoyles are mostly grotesque figures. The term is applied more especially to medieval work, but throughout all ages some means of throwing the water off the roofs, when not conveyed in gutters, has been adopted, ...
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.
generally, in which the gargoyles presented a perfect rogues' gallery
The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
My dear chap, better is it for a man that he marry a sympathetic gargoyle than a Venus with a streak of hardness in her.
Terms used include: arch - segmental/semi-elliptical, arcuated, ashlar, boss, buttress, cobble, concrete, coping, cramps, cutwaters, formwork, drip, gargoyles, grout, indent, intrados, key stone, lime/hydraulic lime mortar, iron, joints, masons mark, ...
Richard Hatch House Commercial buildings: gargoyles:
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A class of decorative sculpture forms often found in or on Gothic structures. A term used broadly for gargoyles, although traditionally a gargoyle serves as a drainage spout for rainwater, while a grotesque may function solely as decoration.
grotesque - a carving usually of a demon, dragon, or half human/half animal, serving no utilitarian purpose. Often confused with gargoyles.
impost - the row of stones on which an arch rests.
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
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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. Many of the listed building churches in Ashfield have gargoyles to be spotted by the ...
 See also: Gargoyle, Architecture, Gothic, Arches, Cathedral
  
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