A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 104
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… … PINNACLE A part of the chevet of the catheilral at Reims.The impoi-tance of these phmaeles is in their colos-sal size, for eacli from the level surface at the topof the great buttress rises 80 feet to tlie finial uponits spire, and includes a solid basement pierced only by the waterway leading to…
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