Some conversions met with problems, such as aging gargoyles on building exteriors having to be expensively restored to meet with current building codes.

Architects often used multiple gargoyles on buildings to divide the flow of rainwater off the roof to minimize the potential damage from a rainstorm.

" A building that has gargoyles on it is " gargoyled.

Lion gargoyles were popular with the ancient Greeks and were frequently used on houses in Pompeii during Roman times.

Image: Dragon grotesque on Peace Tower. jpg | One of four gargoyles atop the Peace Tower, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Also, among the gargoyles on the Tribune Tower is one of a frog.

File: n39604410_30268799_7019. jpg | The false gargoyles on Notre Dame de Dijon

" Lévi's depiction, for all its modern fame, does not match the historical descriptions from the Templar trials, although it may also have been partly inspired by grotesque carvings on the Templar churches of Lanleff in Brittany and Saint-Merri in Paris, which depict squatting bearded men with bat wings, female breasts, horns and the shaggy hindquarters of a beast, as well as Viollet-le-Duc's vivid gargoyles that were added to Notre Dame de Paris about the same time as Lévi's illustration.

Finial stones on several pinnacles broke off, and several pinnacles twisted out of alignment or collapsed entirely ; some gargoyles and other carvings were damaged, and a hole was punched through the metal-clad roof by falling masonry.

There are many gargoyles on the cathedral.

To reflect the ' castle ' the drill hall has a fortified style with castellations, gargoyles, turrets, towers, arrow slits and other Norman architectural features on the façade.

The 14th century octagonal building is supported by curved buttresses on each side leading up to a cornice with grotesque gargoyles.

Other grotesques such as gargoyles and hunky punks are frequently found on churches all over Europe and it is commonly said that they are there to keep evil spirits away ( see apotropaic magic ).

Some carved creatures found on churches might look like gargoyles, but are not if the mouth cannot drain.

More specifically, the grotesque forms on Gothic buildings, when not used as drain-spouts, should not be called gargoyles, but rather referred to simply as grotesques, or chimeras.

It has a Norman chancel with gargoyles on its roof and a golden weathercock.

The Church faces a landscaped grand brick plaza and the main entrance on the north facade includes four gargoyles.

Vestiges of their worship persisted long after Christianity and other major religions extirpated nearly every trace of the major pagan pantheons, and indeed, they continue even today, in one form or another ( and in fact may have taken on some of their own, including statues to various saints, such as St. Francis to protect a garden, or gargoyles in older churches ).

Four gargoyles were placed on the corners of the Clock Tower in 1899, but they were removed to the effects of the weather on the sandstone carvings in 1938.

The gargoyles are similar to those on the Peace Tower in Ottawa.

Four garnished stone gargoyles sat at the upper corners of the clock tower ; these ornaments were removed to the effects of the weather on the sandstone carvings in 1938, but bronze casts of the gargoyles were reinstalled in 2002.

File: Gargoyle peering down on Queen Street. jpg | Closeup of the clock faces and one of the four gargoyles installed in 2002.

On the clock tower, four stone gargoyles were placed near the top of the tower.

The top displays moulded string courses and a trefoil pierced triangular parapet with gargoyles and corner pinnacles.

Each level contains a variety of strange enemies, such as gargoyles, rock creatures, and strong men, which Karnov must destroy or avoid.

Cantilevered out at each of the four corners of the tower, at the level of the observation platform, are four 2. 5 m ( 8 ft 4 in ) long, 75 cm ( 2 ft 6 in ) high, and 45 cm ( 1 ft 6 in ) thick gargoyles made of Stanstead grey granite from Beebe, Quebec.

Over the following centuries the three terms grotesque, moresque and arabesque were used largely interchangeably in English, French and German for styles of decoration derived at least as much from the European past as the Islamic world, with " grotesque " gradually acquiring its main modern meaning, related more to Gothic gargoyles and caricature than to either Pompeii-style Roman painting or Islamic patterns.

Gargoyle representing a comical demon at the base of a pinnacle with two smaller gargoyles, Visby, Sweden

Some animals ( such as the rhinoceros and the hippopotamus ) were unknown in western Europe during the Middle Ages so gargoyles of these species ( such as the ones at Laon Cathedral ) are modern gargoyles and therefore did not have symbolic meaning in Medieval times.

Quasimodo in this version is kind-hearted, not frightening, and is, at first, loyal to his so-called master Frollo, but becomes rebellious after the encouragement from the gargoyles.

The executed design, by architects James Gibson and Samuel Russell of London, combines a corner turret, grandly domed and with gargoyles at the angles, freely combined with Flemish Renaissance stepped gables.

Outside the Minster-have a look at the gargoyles.

Here the Avatar and his party are fighting gargoyles at the beginning of the game.

There is, however, still another objection to Fergussons theory ; the water collecting in these trenches on the roof would have to be discharged, for which Fergussons suggestions are quite inadequate, and the gargoyles shown in the celia wall would make the peristyle insupportable just at the time when it was required for shelter.

Another structure at the plaza is a fountain that features four caryatids forming a column that supports a round structure the side of which is adorned by four gargoyles serving as water spouts.

A quatrefoil pierced parapet has gargoyles at the corner.

There were originally 102 gargoyles or spouts, but due to the heavy weight ( they were crafted from marble ), many have snapped off and had to be replaced.

She later assisted Xanatos in resurrecting one of the dead Gargoyles from Wyvern, Coldstone, attempted to murder Elisa Maza, and also tried to exterminate humanity on numerous occasions ; first by having Puck destroy them ( which failed: he impishly " destroyed " the humans by turning them into gargoyles ), and then used magic to turn them into stone during the night, allowing her to go on a vicious murder spree.

Designed by Jean Omer Marchand and John A. Pearson, the tower is a campanile whose height reaches 92. 2 m ( 302 ft 6 in ), over which are arranged a multitude of stone carvings, including approximately 370 gargoyles, grotesques, and friezes, keeping with the Victorian High Gothic style of the rest of the parliamentary complex.

It contains narrow passageways, exterior arcades, a medieval-style clock, a five-story rotunda, numerous patios and windows, missing gargoyles, castle towers, minarets, a Cloister Wing ( with catacombs ), flying buttresses, Mediterranean domes and a pedestrian skybridge among many other features.

The building is an extravagant Neo-Gothic work with turrets, gargoyles, and battlements.

The building is an extravagant Neo-Gothic work with turrets, gargoyles, and battlements.

They serve more as ornamentation, but are now synonymous with gargoyles.

This includes buildings around the large town square, the old town hall with murals and bronze gargoyles, and the town tower " Černá věž " (" Black Tower ").

The Black Castle referred to in the 2003 film is a ruined, old abandoned castle, decorated with stone dragons and gargoyles.

His belief in the Holy Trinity is represented everywhere in the Lodge by the number three: it has three walls 33 feet long, each with three triangular windows and surmounted by three gargoyles.

The gargoyles in the stretching room now whisper with messages of " Stay Together ", and emit child like giggles after the stretching room sequence.

It is ashlar, has angled buttresses and transomed three-light bell openings, with gargoyles above.

Piddletrenthide has one of the finest village churches in Dorset with a splendid 15th century tower and gruesome gargoyles.

The church is cruciform in shape, with a prominent central tower that has a plain parapet and gargoyles.

The game begins with the player fighting the gargoyles in Lord British's throne room.

The quest for victory over the gargoyles now turns into a quest for peace with them.

The mysterious hooded figure strikes again, shooting Waxflatter with a hallucinogenic thorn, causing him to stab himself as he fends off imagined gargoyles.