Cushion capitals can also be found in Richardsonian Romanesque style
Examples from Buffalo architecture
Illustration above: St. Francis RC Church ...
Cushion Capital - a simple rectangular or cube-like capital with the bottom corners tapered.
Entablature - a lintel-like feature supported by columns or pilasters and usually placed over a doorway or window.
Cushion capital: Capital cut from a block by rounding off the lower corners. Cusp: A curved, triangular-shaped projection from the inner curve of an arch or circle; Curves meeting in a point.
found in St Mark's, Venice; St Luke's, Delphi; the mosques of Kairawan and of Ibn Tulun, Cairo, in the two latter cases FIG. I I. - Cushion Capital.
FIG. 13. - Gothic Capitals from Wells Cathedral.
 See also: Capital, Cushion, Church, Architecture, Capitals
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