Design Toscano Florentine Gargoyle Gothic Decor Statue, Large 30 cm, Polyresin, Greystone

Quite big, sturdy and fairly heavy. It has intricate details and wide magnificent wings. Very well made and Gothic. Saw this Gargoyle and had to have it. Gargoyles represent protection and according to the Middle Ages were put on some buildings and churches to scare evil spirits off and directing water. My Gargoyle is indoors protecting my castle. So exquisitely eerie and scary. It's so ugly it's cute.

I love this! I was surprised at how much I like this! Its really well made and really does look like stone. You can' tell it's not until you touch it and pick it up. It's good size, and is deliciously ugly! :) I really like this and it's sitting in my garden right now as it's for indoor and outdoor use. I understand that they also make fountains, and I'm going to look this up. I find that stone statues get knocked over and chipped by the foxes we have in our garden. when bits fall of the foxes run away with them! This is a great (cheaper) alternative. Recommend for outdoor use.

Suitably weighty, so it will not get knocked over by our cats or dog. Mine came in a great dark grey and I think it will make an excellent back garden ornament. It looks very impressive with lots of detail and I would have thought that this would have been far more expensive than the asking price. I am impressed enough to look at other items in the range.

Yikes! That and other, harsher expletives were emitted by my wife when I assisted the birth (took it out of the box) of this monstrosity. 'What are we going to do with that?' she asked, bizarrely. 'It's a gargoyle' I answered, starring at her with my bemused face before raising it in the air like Kunta Kinte's baby and swinging it around the room. This currently resides, pride of place, in the middle of our living room floor where the dust and dirt should be. Since plopping it down there has been a massive decrease in the appearance of arachnids scuttling merrily from one corner of the room to the other so I can only assume this idol holds some awful Scarecrow-like powers. After several hours of locked gazes, I am still unsure of the gargoyle's breeding. There is a touch of lion, a sprinkling of pit-bull, a suggestion of the bovine, the dreadful wings and claws of some unspeakable harpy, the hindquarters of a squatting hell-lurker, and the skull of a Mitchell brother. Someone told me it was from 'that auld resin stuff', but I'm not so sure. That doesn't explain why the hairs on the back of my ears stand on end when I stretch out a finger to touch its woe-inspiring head. Why wait until Halloween to put this outside your house for the dread and shrieks of the neighbourhood children? You can bring it along with you for parent-teacher meetings, tuck it in snuggly to a pram and bring it shopping with you and giggle as the old biddies ask to have a peak at your beloved baby. Oh how they faint. If you're feeling especially naughty, you can tuck it inside your pants and lift your shirt when your wife brings her work colleagues around - 'I have done a wrong thing' you shout. 'Yes you have' your wife says sadly. She lowers and shakes her head - 'yes you have'.

The statue looks good, it looks a lot more expensive that it is although it's far too fragile for a garden ornament. It first broke 2 weeks after it was placed when it was blown over by light wind, the wing fell off although I managed to hot glue it back in place. 2 weeks later, I found it once again blown over with the other wing now snapped off! We have other ornaments in that area, some also fell over without damage so I feel this is better suited to placing indoors. Shame, as it's nice looking.