A large sandstone gargoyle, English


Possibly 15th centuryIts open mouth forming a water spout, the tendrils of its hair and beard rendered with scrolling tips, and with drilled eyes and pointed, large ears, 46cm high
|Reputedly from the old Coventry Cathedral, built of sandstone in the late 14th and early 15th century as the Parish Church of St Michael and elevated to the status of a cathedral in 1918. Destroyed during a bombing raid in 1940, parts of the old Cathedral remain. Several gargoyles from the old structure still survive, and share the same drilled eyes and hair, rendered with scroll-tipped tendrils.