The thinking was that the church offered spiritual safety for those who accepted its authority, but outside the church was spiritual danger.
Some believe gargoyles on a church were meant to ward off evil it’s also possible that the gargoyles symbolized evil spirits, monstrous entities, and damned souls. Many times gargoyles in Gothic churches were attached to the gutter system of the roof, with the mouth of the gargoyle acting as a spout for rainwater, helping keep the masonry from being destroyed.Ĭatholic churches in the Middle Ages used gargoyles for a secondary purpose, after diverting water from the church walls. Gargoyles are figures often carved into the architecture of old churches, usually in the form of a grotesque animal or human.
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