WASHINGTON – They are angelic and mischievous. They are earthly and heavenly. And they are all watching as visitors move around the grounds of the National Cathedral. They are the gargoyles and ...

PARIS – PARIS (AP) — A Muslim stonemason who spent nearly four decades helping to restore a Roman Catholic cathedral in France has been immortalized as a winged gargoyle peering out from its facade — ...

The 5.8-magnitude earthquake that famously shook D.C. in 2011 sent the head of a gargoyle atop the Washington National Cathedral flying. “All that energy was going up the walls,” head mason at the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Washington National Cathedral will be offering tours of its unique stone carvings for the first time since the building was damaged by an earthquake last year. Tours exploring more ...

The nonprofit organization Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris want to pair you with the building’s signature stone demons. (We first learned about the fundraiser at DesignTAXI.) You can contribute to a ...

The Washington National Cathedral calls itself "a house of prayer for all people, conceived to serve as a great church for national purposes." In other words, the cathedral is designed to capture and ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — A Washington National Cathedral gargoyle is getting its head back 12 years after an earthquake caused millions in damages to it and to the building it's perched on. Workers on the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Europeans waltz to Mozart and Bach when Americans twist to Chubby Checker and Elvis Presley. As Europeans savor a square of brie, Americans are sharp on cheddar. Europeans ...

Paris might have Notre Dame and Venice, Saint Mark’s Basilica, but Washington has its own touch of gratifying Gothic design—the National Cathedral (Wisconsin and Massachusetts Ave., NW), which began ...

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Pascal Mychalysin said the gargoyle was "loosely inspired by Germain Greer having a row" A new gargoyle of a cheese-roller is to be installed at Gloucester Cathedral. The 3ft (1m) tall grotesque ...