The gargoyles on the Church of the Assumption capture the true medieval spirit of inspired grotesquerie and goofiness and filter it through a twentieth-century sensibility. This gargoyle is having a bad day.
This one on the side of the building seems to be above a chimney vent. It demonstrates, in a silly way that would have appealed to the medieval sense of humor, one of the torments prepared for the damned.
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[…] Father Pitt does not know who created these faces, but he would not be surprised to find that it was the same sculptor who decorated the Church of the Assumption in Bellevue. […]