Concrete Canyons

This Blog has been created to chronicle a trip to New York City and Philadelphia.  To wander, wonder and witness the achitecture of the "Big City" while documenting the adventure.  Some thoughts will be written down, many pics will be captured, but most of all, time will be spent with a cherished child.

Chicago

Hamilton Ohio

Let the adventure begin...

In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building.

The term originates from the French gargouille, originally "throat" or "gullet";[1] cf. Latin gurgulio, gula, and similar words derived from the root gar, "to swallow", which represented the gurgling sound of water (e.g., Spanish garganta, "throat"; Spanish gárgola, "gargoyle").

A chimera, or a grotesque figure, is a sculpture that does not work as a waterspout and serves only an ornamental or artistic function. These are also usually called gargoyles in layman's terminology,[1] although the field of architecture usually preserves the distinction between gargoyles (functional waterspouts) and non-waterspout grotesques.

Gargoyles are said to scare off and protect from any evil or harmful spirits.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.