St Paul's Church Gargoyles - St Paul's Square, Bedford, UK
N 52° 08.120 W 000° 28.049
30U E 673320 N 5779115
St Paul's church is located on an island at the centre of St Paul's Square in Bedford. The church was originally built in the 13th century with alterations, extensions and rebuilds having been made. There are gargoyles on the church's tower.
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Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/29/2016
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There is a gargoyle at each corner of the sqaure section of the church tower at the base of the steeple. The British History website mentions them in a lengthy article about St Paul's church:
The central tower is a very interesting piece of early masonry in rubble walling with heavy ashlar quoins. No herring-bone masonry is visible. It is of four stages, the second stage being hidden by the roofs, and has lost its original finish, now ending with an embattled parapet having crocketed pinnacles and gargoyles at the angles of 15th-century date.