A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 210
nacle (Low Lat.), a small turretor tall ornament, usually tapering to-wards the top, much used in Gothicarchitecture as a termination to but-tresses, &c.; it is also very frequentlyemployed in parapets, especially at theangles, and sometimes on the tops ofgables and other elevated situations:it… … 202 Pinnacle. Pinnacles are not used in the Norman style, thoughthere exist a few small turrets, of latedate, with pointed terminations, which ap-pear to be their prototypes, as at the westend of Rochester Cathedral, and the northtransept of St. Etienne at Caen. In the Early English style they are…
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