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GUTTER (O. Fr. goutiere, mod. gouttiere, from See also: horizontal channel or trough contrived to carry away the See also: water from a flat or sloping roof to its discharge down a vertical See also: pipe or through a spout or gargoyle; more specifically, but loosely, the similar channel at the See also: side of a street, below the pavement
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In See also: Greek and See also: Roman temples the cymatium of the cornice was the gutter, and the water was discharged through the mouths of lions, whose heads were carved on the same
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Sometimes the cymatium was not carried along the flanks of a See also: temple, in which See also: case the rain See also: fell off the See also: lower edge of the roof tiles
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In See also: medieval See also: work the gutter rested partly on the top of the See also: wall and partly on corbel tables, and the water was discharged through gargoyles
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Sometimes, however, a parapet or pierced See also: balustrade was carried on the corbel table enclosing the gutter
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In buildings of a more ordinary class the parapet is only a continuation of the wall below, and the gutter is set back and carried in a trough resting on the lower end of the roof timbers
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The safest course is to have an eaves gutter which projects more or less in front of the wall and is secured to and carried by the rafters of the roof
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In See also: Renaissance architecture-generally the pierced balustrade of the See also: Gothic and transition work was replaced by a balustrade with vertical balusters
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In See also: France a compromise was effected, whereby instead of the horizontal See also: coping of the ordinary balustrade a richly carved cresting was employed, of which the earliest example is in the first See also: court of the Louvre by See also: Pierre Lescot
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This exists throughout the French Renaissance, and it is one of its chief characteristic features
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