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GUTTER (O. Fr. goutiere, mod. gouttiere, from Lat. gutta, drop)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 744 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
GUTTER (O. Fr. goutiere, mod. gouttiere, from Lat. gutta, drop) , in architecture, a
horizontal
  channel or trough contrived to carry away the water from a flat or sloping roof to its discharge down a vertical pipe or through a spout or gargoyle; more specifically, but loosely, the similar channel at the side of a
street
 , below the pavement. In Greek and 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. Sometimes the cymatium was not carried along the flanks of a temple, in which case the rain fell off the lower edge of the roof tiles. In medieval
work
  the gutter rested partly on the top of the
wall
  and partly on corbel tables, and the water was discharged through gargoyles. Sometimes, however, a
parapet
  or pierced
balustrade
  was carried on the corbel table enclosing the gutter. 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. 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. In Renaissance architecture-generally the pierced
balustrade
  of the
Gothic
  and transition
work
  was replaced by a balustrade with vertical balusters. In France a compromise was effected, whereby instead of the
horizontal
  coping of the
ordinary
  balustrade a richly carved cresting was employed, of which the earliest example is in the first court of the Louvre by Pierre Lescot. This exists throughout the French Renaissance, and it is one of its
chief
  characteristic features.


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