A Rare Pair of Large Ruabon Terracotta Roof Gargoyles; The Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Shrewsbury c.1880 sub-Architectural & Garden and is best known for

and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667)

the other showing his palm

Width: 24 inches (with antlers)

The designs and style is very much of the 1790s

A Rare Pair of Large Ruabon Terracotta Roof Gargoyles; The Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Shrewsbury c.1880 sub-Architectural & Garden and is best known forOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid Victorian Gothic RevivalProvenance: The Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK. Date: c. 1880Height: 34Width: 26Depth: 34 (all at extremities and each)The beautifully modelled and scarce pair of large mythical beasts or wyverns, in Welsh Ruabon terracotta each with sinuous legs and wings, the elongated necks with rib barbs and perched on apex tiles with scroll ends, hailing from the exterior decorations on