My first stop on this past weekend’s Cape Artisans Tour was Leslie Bartlett’s studio. I purchased a booklet of old photos Les put together in 1999 called “Rockport Timeline”. Leafing through I found “The Great Gargoyle” of Rockport. I had heard of this and knew it was close by. To find it I walked to where I thought it was, “if you get to Andrews Point you’ve gone too far” and bingo! Turns out my daughter and I named the cleft in front of the gargoyle “King’s Throne” a couple of years ago because you can sit tucked in there facing due east on a nice seat and be warmed by the morning sun.
If you can’t figure it out I drew a picture:
and Sharon posted about Hipstamatic for the iPhone which oldifies your shot so I took a B&W polaroid circa 1980 (or maybe 1880):
What is amazing is every crack and seam is as it was a hundred years ago. There is a slab of granite that may weigh about twenty tons perched in front which could have been moved into place in the Blizzard of 78 or the Perfect Storm but otherwise identical.
Should I post exactly where it is? Naah, no fun in that.
Good Morning Gloucester 
les is my absolute favorite locaol artist!
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Paul,
I especially like that you didn’t give out the exact location! Finding it is half the fun.
Les
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Way more than half the fun. To have walked by here a hundred times and the lightbulb does not go off then, holy cow this gargoyle is right off the “tour” on Notre Dame!
My next post of hidden treasures like this will be Devil’s Den, complete with the stories about the diving board attached but first I have to find it.
I think I know.
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