Assertion: gargoyle | /r/HasProperty | decorative
Facets:
value: on old buildings
type: LOCATION
value: often
type: DEGREE
value: in medieval architecture
type: LOCATION
value: very
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In medieval architecture, the gargoyles, which had to be very numerous because of the many gutters which were carried on the tops of flying buttresses, and higher and lower walls, were often very decorative, consisting, as they did, of stone images of grotesque animals, and the like, or, in smaller buildings of iron or lead.
text: A gargoyle is a decorative figure that conveys water away from the gutter of a building to prevent it from running down the wall.
text: Strictly speaking, however, gargoyles are decorative waterspouts that preserve stonework by diverting the flow of rainwater away from buildings.
text: Gargoyles are decorative stone carvings on old buildings, usually with a shape like the heads of strange and ugly creatures, whereas grotesques are spouts in the form of grotesque human or animal figures projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building.