A tall and light monument stands between the Lady Chapel and St. Catherine's; its crocketed finials, filled with tracery, rise almost to the ceiling.
The embossed and crocketed cupolas which crown the towers of Saint Gatien are not very pure in taste; but, like a good many impurities, they have a certain character.
The high-pitched roof contains three windows of beautiful design, covered with embroidered caps and flowering into crocketed spires.
It is flanked by buttresses, with niches and crocketed pinnacles.
It is of good proportion, has two storeys with crocketed pinnacles, a parapet adorned with lesser spires, and the whole effect is not unpleasing.
The crocketedogee arch and the diaper work above are worthy of attention; the door is modern.
At the west end is a large Decorated window, and a deeply-recessed doorway of six orders, with buttresses on either side, which have crocketed pinnacles; a wooden cross surmounts the gable.
There is a crocketed gable above the door, a rose window of good design, and some delicately-carved work surmounted by a cross.
There is rich panel work, an open-work battlemented parapet, and a richly-crocketed pinnacle crowns a turret on the south side.
At each angle there is a turret, with a small crocketed spire, and from a mass of richly-decorated pinnacles the great spire rises.
At the four corners are noble Norman buttresses, crowned with crocketed pinnacles, added in Early Perpendicular times, when the fall of the old wooden spire had carried away the original Norman ones.
The exterior of the Salle des Procureurs is comparatively simple: the most highly decorated part of it is the gable, which is flanked by two octangular turrets, ornamented with crocketed pinnacles and flying buttresses.
One of them still remains in a state of dilapidation: to the other has been added a square tower, of rather elegant proportions, surmounted by a small crocketed pinnacle, the workmanship probably of the fourteenth century.
At each of the four angles of the tower is an octagonal turret with crocketed spire.
It consists of a pointed, crocketed arch, terminating in an elaborate finial; with a flat slab below, originally inlaid with a brass.
Each arch has a triangular hood moulding, crocketedwith carved finials.
The east front of the Lady Chapel is divided by buttresses into three bays, and has crocketed gables to each.
The towers are often extremely rich, and are ornamented very elaborately, having four or five storeys of large windows with rich canopies and pinnacles, double buttresses at the bottom, and rich parapets with crocketed turrets at the corners.
Each pier, which ends in a square crocketedand gabled pinnacle, has half-way [Illustration: FIG.
Two of its many mouldings are enriched with smaller cuspings, and one, the outermost, with a line of wavy tracery, while the whole ends in a crocketed ogee.
Outside, other mouldings rise high above the whole to form a second large trefoil, whose hood-mould curves into two great crocketed circles before rising to a second ogee.
It is of three lights, with flowing tracery at the head, and with small cusped and crocketed arches thrown across each light at varying levels.
Twisted shafts bearing the corbels, elaborate canopies, crocketed finials, all are rather Gothic than Manoelino.
The octagon above has buttresses with ordinary pinnacles at each corner, a parapet like that below, and flying buttresses, all pierced, cusped and crocketed like those at the west front.
Above, the crocketed drip-mould is carried up in an ogee leaving room for the coronation of the Virgin over the apex of the arch.
Straight crested parapets also crown the wall where it is set back, but at the sides the two corners grow into eight-sided turrets ending in low crocketed stone roofs.
Coming to the south transept, there is a large doorway below under a crocketed gable flanked by a tall pinnacle on either side.
Each story contains two windows of two lights, transomed, the whole terminating in an embattled parapet, with crocketed pinnacles at the corners, surmounted by vanes.
There is a pilaster set angle-wise at each end, banded at the separate divisions of the monument, and also rising into crocketed pinnacles.
Crocketed canopies and other carved decorations are common, and in large buildings they usually terminate in pinnacles, which are sometimes of open work.
The whole of the exterior is covered with rich carving, crocketed finials, innumerable gargoyles and the usual enriched mouldings of Gothic architecture.
The sturdy crocketed spire of the sombre old church of Notre Dame stands out above the long line of shuttered houses down by the harbour.
It is divided by slender stone mullions into compartments, filled with light and elegant tracery, surmounted by crocketed canopy-work, terminated by bratishing.
The beam itself is composed of a great many pieces of timber, deeply moulded and carved, and enriched with pendent tracery and crocketed braces.
At the head of the lofty shaft is a crocketed cross bearing the sacred monogram: beneath this are beautifully sculptured figures of the four evangelists under crocketed canopies.
In the nave is a small but exceedingly beautiful monument bearing the half-length effigies, side by side, under an elaborately-crocketed canopy, of Sir Godfrey Foljambe and Avena his wife.
It is octagonal, each of its sides bearing a figure beneath a crocketed canopy.
A much richer variety of the same kind occurs at the west front of Howden, where there is a canopied niche with a figure in it; and the buttress terminates in a turret pinnacle, with open-work tracery, and a crocketed spire.
Many church towers in this style are finished with spires, which are frequently crocketed and have spire lights, and sometimes they are banded with quatrefoils.
The exterior offers an imposing and picturesque ensemble, with its crocketed spire rising some two hundred and fifty or more feet above the roof-tops of the ancient city.
It borders upon the style we have since learned to decry, but it is, at least, marvellous as to the skill with which its foliaged and crocketed pinnacles and elaborate traceries are worked.
A fine cornice and open-work gallery surmount the composition, flanked by crocketed turrets and crowned in the centre by a pediment injurious in effect and of Italian Renaissance inspiration.
The present dome curves from an octagonal Renaissance base, the transitional corners being filled with crocketed pyramids similar to the many crowning buttresses and piers at all angles of the church below.
A similar order decorates the drum of the cupola, while Gothic crocketedpyramids break the transition at angles.
The front is composed of a screenwork of three huge arches, within which three portals leading to the aisles form the main composition, the whole crowned by a series of crocketed pinnacles.
The sky is jagged by the crocketed spires which terminate the flying buttresses, the piers and the angles of the wall surface.
The central part is hexagonal in plan and ornamented by arches and crocketed finials.
The fine old shafts, separating the trefoiled or quatrefoiled arcade, are hidden by crocketed pinnacles and a traceried balcony.
The groups of small columns which support the ribs of the vaulting rest upon a corbel-table carried by three consoles (photo above), which in turn rest on colonnettes with crocketed capitals.
The lateral arcades are blind, while the higher central arcading around the door is surmounted with three receding tori resting on crocketed foliate capitals.
An octagonal stair turret surmounted by a crocketed pyramidal termination stands at the south angle of the inner bay on the eastern side.
The two octagonal turrets that rise from the east end of the clerestory walls with their crocketed pyramidal terminations form a pleasing feature.
His eyes rested upon its innumerable crocketed pinnacles, its buttresses, its battlements, and upon the magnificent rose-window terminating the choir.
Beneath him lay the body of the mighty fabric, its vast roof, its crocketed pinnacles, its buttresses and battlements scarcely discernible through the gloom, but looking like some monstrous engine devised to torture him.
On the left ran the magnificent pointed windows of the choir, divided by massive buttresses,--the latter ornamented with crocketed pinnacles.
The exquisite building was octagonal in form, and supported by large buttresses, ornamented on each gradation by crocketed pinnacles.
On the west side of the base is the curious crocketed niche seen in the cut; it may conjecturally have been used to display the Paschal light at Easter-tide.
It is divided up into a series of canopied and crocketed niches, containing small sculptured statues of considerable beauty.
The knight's head is crowned by a peaked hauberk, and the soldierly face, with its long, flowing moustache, looks out from a richly cusped and crocketed canopy.
The base of this monument is divided into six panels, in each of which is a figure beneath a cusped andcrocketed arch.
The north wall of the chancel is adorned with a handsome, crocketed canopy, which terminates in a triplet of queer, sculptured faces symbolical of the Holy Trinity.
The tower built against the northern end of the front carries a lofty and gracefulcrocketed spire.
They are carried up straight from the ground nearly to the eaves, where they are weathered back and finished with square crocketed pinnacles; whilst between them an open arcade is carried all round just below the eaves.
The buttresses generally are finished with crocketed pediments, but there are now no traces to be seen of their pinnacles, or of the parapets between them.
It is of four stages in height; the three lower stages quite plain, and the belfry rather rich, with a window in each face, panelling all over the wall above, and crocketed pediments over the windows.
Each panel has a cinquefoiled arch with a crocketed gablet and pinnacles on either side.
This has a fine third-pointed south doorway with an ogeecrocketed canopy, and a belfry stage of two lancet-lights on each face, roofed with a flat roof of pantiles.
Fornelles has a good church, with a low crocketed spire on an octagonal steeple, brought to a square just below the belfry-stage.
The arch is crocketed and covered with a profusion of small carving, and with coats-of-arms of Castile and Leon.
Crocketed pinnacles are arranged at each angle, and large six-light windows with very rich and varied geometrical tracery fill the whole of each of the sides.
The windows are all of four lights, filled with geometrical traceries, with crocketed labels to some and canopies to others, and delicate buttresses and pinnacles dividing the bays.
It was once well garnished with crocketed pinnacles above its flying buttresses, but they have now for the most part disappeared.
Another small pax; a flat plate enamelled, with crocketed pinnacles at the side, but no figure.
The buttresses finish above the parapet with crocketed pinnacles, and the parapet with a pointed coping, which somewhat recalls the outline of the Moorish battlement.
The groining piers are clusters of shafts, and the buttresses on the outside are finished with crocketed gables and a bold cornice carved with foliage.
Each pillar is surmounted by a pinnacle, and behind each canopy rises a crocketed gable, again crowned by a huge finial.
The doorway, which retains its original panelled doors, has three shafts in either jamb, and is surmounted by a crocketed ogee hood, under which is a sculpture representing the First Person of the Trinity with attendant angels.
They are surmounted by lofty canopies of elaborate tabernacle-work supported on slender shafts and rising into a forest of crocketed spirelets and pinnacles.
The upper stage, which is much less lofty, has also two two-light windows on each face, surmounted by crocketed ogee label mouldings and finials.
On each angle of the tower are two buttresses, which are decorated with panelling and canopied and crocketed niches containing figures.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crocketed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
