Friday, April 11, 2008

Lion's Head Gargoyles (chimera)

Lion's Head Gargoyles (chimera)

Lion's Head Gargoyles (chimera)
Lion's Head Gargoyles (chimera) at 82d street and Broadway southeast corner parking garage, New York City, New York.

Architecture, waterspout designed to drain water from the parapet gutter. Originally the term referred only to the carved lions of classical cornices or to terra-cotta spouts, such as those found in the Roman structures at Pompeii. The word later became restricted mainly to the grotesque, carved spouts of the European Middle Ages. It is often, although incorrectly, … gargoyle Britannica Online Encyclopedia

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