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PINNACLE (from Lat. pinnaculum, a little feather, pinna; the Gr. rrspirylov, diminutive of irsipuE, wing, is also used in this sense)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 628 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
PINNACLE (from Lat. pinnaculum, a little feather, pinna; the Gr. rrspirylov, diminutive of irsipuE, wing, is also used in this sense) , an architectural
ornament
  originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations. Some writers have stated that there were no pinnacles in the Romanesque styles, but conical caps to circular buttresses, with finial terminations, are not uncommon in France at very early periods. Viollet-le-Duc gives examples from St Germer and St Remi, and there is one of similar form at the west front of Rochester
Cathedral
 . In the 12th-century Romanesque two examples have been cited, one from Bredon in Worcestershire, and the other from Cleeve in Gloucestershire. In these the buttresses run up, forming a sort of square turret, and crowned with a pyramidal cap, very much like those of the next period, the Early English. In this and the following styles the pinnacle seems generally to have had its appropriate uses. It was a
weight
  to counteract the thrust of the vaults, particularly where there were flying buttresses; it stopped the tendency to slip of the stone copings of the gables, and counterpoised the thrust of spires; it formed a pier to steady the elegant perforated parapets of later periods; and in France especially served to counterbalance the
weight
  of overhanging corbel tables, huge gargoyles, &c. In the Early English period the small buttresses frequently finished with gablets, and the more important with pinnacles supported with clustered shafts. At this period the pinnacles were often supported on these shafts alone, and were open below; and in larger
work
  in this and the subsequent periods they frequently form niches and contain statues. About the Transition and during the Decorated period, the different faces above the
angle
  shafts often finish with gablets. Those of the last-named period are much richer, and are generally decorated with crockets and finials, and sometimes with ball-
flowers
 . Very fine groups are found at
Beverley
  Minster and at the rise of the spire of St Mary's,
Oxford
 . Perpendicular pinnacles differ but little from Decorated, except that the crockets and finials are of later character. They are also often set
angle
 -ways, particularly on parapets, and the shafts are panelled. In France pinnacles, like spires, seem to have been in use earlier than in England. There are small pinnacles at the angles of the tower in the abbey of
Saintes
 . At Roullet there are pinnacles in a similar position, each composed of four small shafts, with caps and bases surmounted withsmall pyramidal spires. In all these examples the towers have semicircular-headed windows.


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