A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 209
u-sively northern. Pinnacle (Low Lat.), a email 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… … 202 Pinnacles aro not used in the JYbrman 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 Cathedr al, and the northtransept of St. Etienne at Caen. In the Early English style they are notvery…
