gargoyles-msg - 2/6/95
Animal statues and drainspouts.
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From: berger at ridgecrest.ca.us (Dan Berger)
Subject: Re: Gragoyles (Re: you know you've been in the sca too long...)
Organization: Panix Public Access UNIX and Internet
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 05:36:33 GMT
millsbn at mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca (Bruce Mills) writes:
>Does anyone know if there is some place to get real working gargoyles for
>the downspouts of a house? I would ass-u-me that a plastic or similar
>substance would be better (for the house) due to weight concerns.
>More than likely there are regulations against it....
>Just wondering...
>Akimoya
Start with -
Design Toscano
17 East Campbell Street
Arlington Heights, IL 60005
800-525-0733
While the designs in their catalog are not functional downspouts, they do a
lot of custom work, and they have probably done them before. If not, they can
probably point you the right direction.
Aside from weight on the structure (which you could probably compensate for),
it's just not very safe to have something that heavy up that high. Wouldn't
even consider it here in California unless it was plastic :)
From: djheydt at uclink.berkeley.edu (Dorothy J Heydt)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Gargoyles
Date: 30 Jan 1995 18:11:24 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Dennis M. Monckton <dmm at emct.com> wrote:
>Could someone please direct me to or E-mail me info on
>Gargoyles.
Um, do you mean real ones or fictional ones?
REAL gargoyles are rainspouts, on cathedrals and other buildings
of the High Middle Ages, that have been carved into the shape of
grotesques. Any monster carved into the fabric of a building is
a grotesque; it's only a gargoyle if it's also a rainspout and
goes "gurgle, gurgle" whenever it rains.
If you want to know about the TV "gargoyles", there must be a
newsgroup about them by now.
Dorothea of Caer-Myrddin Dorothy J. Heydt
Mists/Mists/West UC Berkeley
Argent, a cross forme'e sable djheydt at uclink.berkeley.edu
PRO DEO ET REGE
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