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354: 308: 339: 324: 27: 219: 456: 307: 353: 269:, 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 289:. 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. 300:
there are pinnacles in a similar position, each composed of four small shafts, with caps and bases surmounted with small pyramidal spires. In all these examples the towers have semicircular-headed windows.
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The early-Gothic Notre-Dame de Paris. Arrows show forces (black:forces of cathedral on the ground, green: forces of ground on cathedral). The weight of pinnacles helps keep the
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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
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On the uncertainty of the meaning of this Greek phrase, see Joachim Jeremias, “Die ,Zinne‘ des Tempels (Mt. 4,5; Lk. 4,9),”
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Ornamental – adding to the loftiness and verticity of the structure. They sometimes ended with
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of later periods; and in France especially served to counterbalance the weight of overhanging
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In the Early English period the small buttresses frequently finished with
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In the 12th-century Romanesque two examples have been cited, one from
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Structural – the pinnacles were very heavy and often rectified with
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Pinnacles on the top of walls and the corner of flying buttresses
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and in many other situations. The pinnacle looks like a small
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flying buttress with pinnacles for the late 19th-century
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Some have stated that there were no pinnacles in the
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style, but conical caps to circular buttresses, with
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Pinnacle (disambiguation)

crockets
King's College Chapel
Cambridge
architectural
buttress
turret
parapets
towers
spire
Gothic architecture
statues
Milan Cathedral
lead
flying buttresses
vaults
compressive stress
Jesus'
temptations
Matthew's
Luke's
Second Temple
Jerusalem
Greek
Satan
Romanesque
finial
France
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

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