"If these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out"

Up until today, I always looked at gargoyles as either funny demons forced to shoot out of cathedral walls out of the sanctity within, convenient guttering or the simple-minded superstition of medieval folk. Then I read G.K. Chesterton's "Orthodoxy". Therein he famously wrote:

The following propositions have been urged: First, that some faith in our life…