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cresting:
an ornamental ridge, as on top of a wall or roof
crockets:
an ornamental device, usually in the form of a cusp or curling leaf placed along the outer angles of pinnacles and gables ...
Cresting -- Decoration applied along roof ridges generally consisting of ornamental metal.
Dentils -- A row of small tooth-like blocks in a classical cornice.
Doric Order -- A classical order with simple, unadorned capitals.
CRESTING Roof cresting is a lacy decorative fencing made of wrought iron, rimming the edge or peak of a roof, often seen in Second Empire (Mansard) style buildings.
Cresting The top line or surface of a structure.
Crown molding A molding where the wall and ceiling meet; uppermost molding along furniture or cabinetry.
Cupola A small, dome-like structure, on top of the house.
Cresting - A decorative fence-like ornament on the ridge of a roof.
Cupola - A small dome, a rounded roof on a circular or polygonal base crowning a roof or turret. Also, a small, often squarish tower on a roof.
Cresting
A highly decorative top border on a screen, wall or roof, often constructed of metal.
Cupola ...
cresting A decorative rail, or a row of finials, or another feature at the top of a building, often along the ridge of the roof.
cresting - an openwork ornament along a horizontal edge or ridge.
cultural landscape - the portion of the exterior environment that has been modified, influenced, or given special cultural meaning by people; includes large parks, ...
Cresting - Decoration along the ridge of a roof. Usually perforated cast - or wrought iron or terra-cotta.
Crimped Wire - Wire formed with regular intermittent undulations.
cresting A decorative element, frequently of iron, usually located at the peak or edge of a roof.
"A cresting is defined as an ornamental top piece, usually of a chair. It was firmly attached to the connecting parts of the chair. In the finer pieces the cresting and the front stretchers were both carved, generally in the same design." - Edgar G.
Iron Cresting
A decorative ornament along the top of a roof. Iron cresting was popular in the Baroque era and also in Italianate, Victorian, Second Empire and Queen Anne styles of architecture.
Gananoque ...
RIDGE CRESTING
Ornament along a roof ridge.
RISER
Vertical part of a stair step.
Crest or cresting - An ornamental finish along the top of a screen, wall, or roof, usually decorated and sometimes perforated.
At St Michael's, Coventry, the lower part of the octagonal spire is made vertical with a battlemented cresting round it.
metal roof cresting
broken pediment on windows
window: large pane surrounded by smaller panes or blank lower pane with patterned pane above
dominant decorative chimney
classical one story columns or turned spindles porch supports ...
There are a number of other identifying features which may or may not have been used, such as, roofing materials with decorative patterns of color and textures; iron cresting above the upper cornice; arched windows; ...
With tall mansard roofs and wrought iron cresting, Second Empire homes create a sense of height.
With their high mansard roofs, Second Empire houses suggested European majesty.
Second Empire homes usually have these features: ...
Brattishing
- an ornamental cresting of cast or wrought iron, or terracotta crowning a roof or tower. Sometimes refers to ornamental cresting on screens.
sometimes includes decorative iron cresting on roof tops
sometimes features projecting centre towers and one or second storey bay windows
QUEEN ANNE REVIVAL c. 1885 to 1900 ...
Ante-fixae (from Latin antefigere, to fasten before), the vertical blocks which terminate the covering tiles of the roof of a Greek temple; as spaced they take the place of the cymatium and form a cresting along the sides of the temple.
fits neatly over the other Cornice A horizontal moulding projecting from the top of an external wall or decorating the junction of the internal wall and the ceiling Course A horizontal layer of some material, especially bricks Cresting A ...
 See also: Crest, Ornament, House, Architecture, Cornice
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