The Washington National Cathedral is home to about 1,242 stone carvings. Here’s a look at some of the most interesting gargoyles and grotesques that call the building home.

NEW YORK — When he first arrived at the gothic-style Cathedral of St. John the Divine last year as interim dean, Monsignor Clifton Daniel III asked to see the basement. Maybe his dark curiosity ...

PARIS—The limestone facade of Notre Dame Cathedral is radiant. Its ornate gargoyles and angels show no signs of the smoke and flames that once billowed from the church. The cavernous interior is ...

Twelve years after an earthquake caused major at Washington's National Cathedral, a stone gargoyle's head was finally rejoined to its clawed body.

The abbess touched my cheek, stepped aside so that the gargoyle and I could pass into the narthex, then closed the cathedral doors behind us. Aisling Cathedral was dark. Cold.

WASHINGTON — Stonemasons at the Washington National Cathedral worked to repair a gargoyle that lost its head during a 5.8 magnitude earthquake back in 2011. On the 12th anniversary of the quake ...

Much as been written and said about the grand reopening and restoration of France's Notre Dame, perhaps the world’s most famous cathedral, but for its famous gargoyles this is far from their ...

Gargoyles and grotesques are often seen on religious or collegiate buildings but can be found anywhere. This example is on St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington, Ky.

A Washington National Cathedral gargoyle is getting its head back 12 years after an earthquake caused massive damages.

NEW YORK — When he first arrived at the gothic-style Cathedral of St. John the Divine last year as interim dean, Monsignor Clifton Daniel III asked to see the basement. Maybe his dark curiosity ...