something unusual
 

These two images are details from two pictures I took the other day
while walking round Newcastle. This cute little creature is a bit of a
mystery, nobody seems to know why it exists. It sits above an office
doorway behind the cathedral on a little place called 'Amen Corner'...
anyway, if you're interested in curio maybe you could be the one to find
the history behind the mistory (insert groans here!)

http://groups.msn.com/OtherSides/statuary.msnw
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Paul. (This machine will, will not communicate)
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Not what it seems...
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Re: something unusual
 

"Paul Heslop" <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3F1753A4.F61592A6@blueyonder.co.uk...
> These two images are details from two pictures I took the other day
> while walking round Newcastle. This cute little creature is a bit of a
> mystery, nobody seems to know why it exists. It sits above an office
> doorway behind the cathedral on a little place called 'Amen Corner'...
> anyway, if you're interested in curio maybe you could be the one to find
> the history behind the mistory (insert groans here!)
>
> http://groups.msn.com/OtherSides/statuary.msnw
> --
> Paul. (This machine will, will not communicate)
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Not what it seems...
> http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/

Historically, stone carvers working on cathedrals have been given artistic
freedom in carving gargoyles. This one seems to be based on a rabbit. The
color touches may have been added much later by a painter who was goven (or
took) artistic liberties of his own.

Back in the '70s, there was a public contest to design gargoyles for the
Washington (DC) cathedral. The wife of one of the people in my car pool got
her design on the cathedral.