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Quasimodo's friends - view from the top of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris.
Anyone who watched Disney movies when they were a kid would recognize these friends and the gargoyles from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. They were pretty cool in real life too!
(Not taken with iPad).
Gargouille, Cathédrale Notre Dame, Paris, FRANCE
Camera : Nikon D7000
Lens : Tamron 10-24
Trépied : No
HDR 3 RAW with Photomatix
I have always been fascinated by the gargoyles that I have seen on churches and Notre Dame Cathedral has such fine examples of them. Tradition has it that Notre-Dame’s first stone was laid in 1163 in the presence of Pope Alexander III.
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").
#399 on Explore on 3rd December, 2009
I'm not sure if this building was always a bank, but it is a bank now, protected by gargoyles on 2 sides.
Butler, PA
On a photo walk with the Pittsburgh Photo Safari Meetup group.
Butler was once a rich city so it still has some impressive buildings, but also some urban decay.
It is the place where the "Jeep" was designed by the American Bantam Car Company in 1940 and won the contract from the U.S. Army for its first General Purpose vehicle. However, Bantam could not meet the production demands of the army during WWII, so much of the manufacturing was farmed out to Willy's and Ford.
Armstrong Steel and the Pullman company were also located in the city.
Lafayette visited in June 1826, just about a month before both Adams and Jefferson died (July 4, 1826) the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The Lafayette apartment building for senior citizens now occupies the spot where The General was entertained during his visit.
Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge, England. View on large for full effect!
The Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, or OLEM, is situated in the heart of the city of Cambridge. An imposing example of the 19th Century Gothic Revival, it was built to the designs of Dunn & Hansom of Newcastle between 1885 and 1890, and founded solely by Mrs Yolande Marie Louise Lyne-Stephens, a former ballet dancer at the Paris Opera and Drury Lane, London, and widow of a wealthy banker. She promised to build the church on the feast of Our Lady of the Assumption, and Monsignor Christopher Scott - the first Rector - also wished to commemorate the Catholic Martyrs who died between 1535 and 1681, over thirty of whom had been in residence at the University.
www.olem.freeuk.com/history.htm
Dunn & Hansom specialised somewhat in gargoyles.
Picture published Oct 2011 in Eccentric Cambridge, Ben le Vay. (Bradt Guides)
www.amazon.co.uk/Eccentric-Cambridge-Bradt-Travel-Guides/...
In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque, usually made of granite, with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between. 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 trough is cut in the back of the gargoyle and rainwater typically exits through the open mouth. Gargoyles are usually an elongated fantastic animal because the length of the gargoyle determines how far water is thrown from the wall. When Gothic flying buttresses were used, aqueducts were sometimes cut into the buttress to divert water over the aisle walls.