What Daniel discovered in the shadowy corners was a host of strange treasures: a Greek amphitheater, antique furniture and leaded windows, wooden angels, plaster gargoyles, light fixtures from the ...

Upward of 2,000 specialists have labored over its restoration — hewing enormous wood beams, carving and repairing stone gargoyles, retuning the 8,000 pipes of the Grand Organ. But even now ...

I was taken to Exeter Cathedral to see a gargoyle that was carved by my great-grandfather," says Simon. "My mother had been taken to see it by her mother too - when I returned to show the carving ...

The "Star Wars" villain is just one of the many intriguing carvings that decorate the building. "All gargoyles are grotesques, but not all grotesques are gargoyles," Eckstrom explained.

The carving of the villainous Darth Vader was the third-place winner in a contest for children during the cathedral's 83-year construction. Others among its 112 gargoyles include a bear ...

Over the years however ... the word has changed and gargoyles have come to symbolize any carving of a grotesque nature regardless if the carving has a functional or purely decorative purpose." ...

But a local far-right group has said the carving is an affront to the Catholic Church. Fellow stonemason Emmanuel Fourchet decided to carve the gargoyle, nicknamed Ahmed, in tribute to his friend ...