The man charged with carving them is Pascal Mychalysin, a master mason from Burgundy, who has been at the cathedral for more than 20 years. "There is the 'Mad King' and 'the labourer', the powerful and the powerless and the old man and the young man ... I intended to model the Mad King on Boris Johnson, but it ended up looking more like Alan Rickman." Gargoyles are technically decorative water spouts that preserve stonework by diverting rainwater away from buildings (the word gargoyle derives from the French gargoille for throat and any other caricature of an animal or absurd human face is strictly speaking a ''grotesque''). Full Article at The Telegraph