A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 99
Pinnacle: Tower of CoutancesCathedral. Normandy, about1130, with fixx.a.cle of unusualSize. The roof of the stair turret has also two pinna-cles closely combined with its mass. PINAKOTHEK. A building for the exhi-bition of paintings, the term having been putto use in Munich to denote the two… … PINNACLE A part of the chevet of the cathedral at Reims.Tlie iinijortance of these pinnacli-s is in tlieir colos-sal size, for each from the level surface at the topof the gi-eat Inittress rises 80 feet to tlie tiiiial uponits spire, and includes a solid basement pierced only by the waterway…
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