crockets:
an ornamental device, usually in the form of a cusp or curling leaf placed along the outer angles of pinnacles and gables
cupola:
a small structure built on top of a roof ...
Crockets:
A distinctive Gothic motif formed of floral and leaf ornamentation. Primarily used on spire and pinnacle sculpture.
Cross-Banding: ...
Crockets - Projecting decoration (often foliage) decorating angled edges (e.g. of spires, canopies, pew-ends or architraves).
Crockets on finials, Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk; Ostend, Belgium
In the Early English period the small buttresses frequently finished with gablets, and the more important with pinnacles supported with clustered shafts.
Crockets have no architectural function; instead, they were used on cathedrals in imitation of the bishop's crozier (a word also derived from the French "croc") which symbolized his function as a shepherd protecting his sheep.
Crockets are usually found on the raking edge of finials, pinnacles and spires. Here they are on the top edge of an ogee shaped hood mould. Above the lower windows is a cornice with a pointed arch frieze and battlementing along the top.
pinnacle with the spire, a flying buttress was thrown across, thus filling the gap between them; of this St James's, at Louth, in Lincolnshire, may be taken as a fine type; it belongs to the Perpendicular period and is further enriched with crockets ...
In Gothic architecture, leafy hooks or knobs, as on a crocket capital. Crocketing (rows of crockets) decorates the edges of pinnacles, canopies, etc.
The Early English gablets are generally plain, and very sharp in pitch. In the Decorated period they are often enriched with panelling and crockets. They are sometimes finished with small crosses, but more often with finials.
arcade, triforium, and clerestory, the varying designs of the latter with their subtile arrangements of slender shafts and delicate lancets; the beautiful pier sections and moulding profiles, together with the sculpture of capitals, bosses, crockets, ...
 See also: Crocket, Architecture, Gothic, Pinnacle, Church
  
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