A very stony Anglican church that has kept its rich black coat of soot.
Gargoyles guard the building from the top of the tower.
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St. Stephen’s Church, Sewickley
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Bellevue Methodist Protestant Church
This elaborately stony Gothic church is small but rich; it seems to represent an American Christian’s fantasy of the Middle Ages. It is no longer active as a church, but the building is kept in good shape by the current occupants, “The Center of Bellevue.” The gargoyles on the tower are distinctive and impressive.
This was the Methodist Protestant church, as the inscription informs us. Bellevue’s Methodist Episcopal congregation built just across the border in West Bellevue, now Avalon, where the congregation still meets in what has become known as the Greenstone Church.
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Gargoyles on the Church of the Assumption, Bellevue
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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Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, Allegheny West
Now Calvary United Methodist Church, this church is known for its stained glass by the Tiffany Studios. It was built in 1892–1895; the architects were Vrydaugh & Shepherd and T. B. Wolfe. The exterior is a feast of elaborate and often playful Gothic detail.
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Goofy Gargoyle, Grumpy Gargoyle
Two gargoyle faces on St. Paul’s Cathedral in Oakland.
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Gargoyles on the Church of the Ascension
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Gargoyles of St. Paul’s
Look for them on the Fifth Avenue front of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Oakland.
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Gargoyle on the Marine Bank Building
