#thegrotesque10

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I’m no doctor but I can see the trouble. You are having a hard time breathing because you seem to have swallowed a pipe!!

Our Lady & the English Martyrs Church, Cambridge, UK

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I knew this sculpture reminded me of something!

The University Church, Oxford University, UK

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A splendid gargoyle on Crowell Tower at Duke University… APRIL FOOLS!!! Ha! This sculpture is NOT a gargoyle but just a non functioning grotesque as it lacks a pipe or channel to convey water from the building.

Hoping that other April Fools jokes are much wittier than this one.

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Cats & dogs. Age old enemies!

Old Library, Bryn Mawr College

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“Hell hath the fury of a mason bored.”

St Chappelle, Ile de la Cité, Paris

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We the people… of Canada!

Old City Hall, Toronto, ONT

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Eale (pronounced “Yale”): a mythological creature used in heraldry.

Top: Old World “Eale” (Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, UK) Bottom: the New World “Eale” (Timothy Dwight College, Yale University, US)

“Eale” becomes “Yale” & ends up at Yale

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A bite of the Big Apple in France. Light show at Notre Dame de Rouen.

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“Just think,1000 years from now we can look up & see my very own gargoyle!” said Elizabeth Kimball on learning her gargoyle design was accepted at the Washington National Cathedral.

To which her smart-aleck son replied: “I would rather think that 1000 years from now we could look DOWN & see it!”

Washington National Cathedral, Washington DC

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In the Spring, Handsome Dan takes out his “machine”… Its a real “jalopie” but also a nice “breezer”!

Stained glass, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University

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The studious sort

Trinity College Chapel, Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut

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A roaring hellfire is tempting on a cold French night!

Notre Dame de Rouen

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No matter what the circumstance, this grotesque will always have the last laugh!

Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK

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Use Grotesque brand conditioner. Gives your gargoyle a thicker, fuller coat!

Eglise St Severin, Paris

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It may look as though he is drooling, but he’s just doing his job.

Tour St Jacques, Paris

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I would describe this grotesque as being “ear-ily” angelic!

St John’s College, Oxford