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Gargoyle Candle Holder
The builders of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance discharged the rain
clear of the wall by means of long projecting Spouts. The spout was used in
the Antique style in the for of lion heads, &c. In the early ecclesiastical
and monumental architecture of the Middle Ages they are termed Gargoyles;
and are mostly of stone. In dwelling houses they are of sheet-metal; and
they are either architectonically decorated, or human, animal, or fantastic
figures, treated in a comic manner, the water flowing through the mouth or
other orifices of the body.
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