A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 103
Pinnacle: Ox-ford C A T H E-dral; c. 1220. PINNACLE It is most widely used in mortise-and-tenonframing, and the like. (Compare Bolt.) PINACOTHECA. In classic architecture,a building for the jn-eservation or exhibition ofpictures ; in modern iise, a gallery of painting.(See Pinakothek.) … Pinnacle; Tower ok CoutancesCathedral, Normandy, about11.30, with Pinnacle of UnusualSize. TIu- rnnf of the stair turret has also two pinna-cles closely combined with its mass. PINAKOTHEK. A building for the exhi-bition of ]iaiiitiiigs, the term having been putto use in Munich to denote the two…
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