The Crucifixion forms the finial of the canopy over the doorway, and three or four other subjects are concealed by the modern framework round the door.
Over the east door of the cloister is a Pietà in the tympanum, whilst the finial of the canopy is a crucifix.
The fleur-de-lis as the finial of a sceptre and as an ornament of a crown can be taken back to the fifth century.
Its earliest heraldic appearances as the finial of a sceptre or the decoration of a coronet need not have had any symbolical character.
The top of this finial has been cut down to a level with the window ledge, and the face of the moulding hacked off to make the wall flat for the panelling, which has now been removed.
When the upper part of the spire was restored, the beautiful finial of foliage was for some unaccountable reason not reproduced.
The minaret was slender and high, Blue was its dome; blue like the sky, Its gilded finial shone like a star Over the sinful town of Kar.
MacNeil, who is better known to Exposition visitors by his finial group, "The Adventurous Bowman," on the Column of Progress.
Torch Bearer Finial Figure, Festival Hall As Festival Hall is the seat of the Exposition's musical life, all the sculpture on and about the building expresses a lyrical mood.
The gables and the dormer windows in the larger houses were often connected by a parapet, broken at intervals by a shallow pilaster carried up to form the base of a finial or the seat for some heraldic animal.
The newels at the Charterhouse carry a crest by way of finial (Fig.
Vane formerly upon the finial of the kitchen roof, Stanton Harcourt, Oxon.
A good instance of the end of the fifteenth century forms a charming finial to the well-known kitchen at Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, but the griffin which sits aloft there has, alas, no longer a vane to hold (fig.
Vane formerly upon the finial of the kitchen roof at Stanton Harcourt, Oxon.
Decorated finial with crockets (on the side of the slope), from Lincoln Cathedral.
A finial is a bunch of foliage which terminates pinnacles, canopies, pediments, etc.
Its rugged beams are curiously carved; grotesque faces leer upon the passer-by from finial and bracket; and the builder's initials are ingeniously interwoven amidst the ornamentation of the weatherworn bargeboard.
Observe also (1) old wooden door, (2) the lion serving as a finial to W.
Above the finial of the ogee runs a corbel table supporting a pierced and crested parapet, a little different in design from the rest.
The outside of the arch is crocketed, and ends in a tall finial thrust through the horizontal and crested moulding which, as at the Graça, sets the whole in a square frame.
Sweeping the glance round to south, we see the southern of the two Jilsayn, tall mounds of horizontal strata, with ironstone in harder lines and finial blocks.
This proportion gives it an air of dignity and repose, while its gilded surface from base to finial causes it to be truly magnificent.
It is built in the form of a square tower, rising in a series of terraces, growing smaller and ending in a finial at the summit.
Illustration: Finial of the Central Gable of the West Front.
Finial group, "The Adventurous Bowman," frieze and decoration - Hermon A.
Weinman, Sculptor Finial Figure in the Court of Abundance.
Fry A standingfinial figure, on the minor domes, of graceful pose.
A single finial figure of a girl with a bow is used on top of the same column.
Spandrels in Court of Palms; Decorative finial figure, in Court of Abundance repeated figure in Portal of Thought, etc.
The ogee moulding is richly decorated with foliage, and terminates in a lofty finial reaching to the top of the screen.
Each division is filled with a geometrical pattern of two panels, each panel ending in a trefoil, with a circular trefoil in the head of each division, and a crocketed gable, terminating in a richfinial above it.
From the finial at the top of the gable rise three ribs running to the top of the arch above.
Below this is a cusped arch in each light of the triforium with a crocketed gable ending in a finial above it.
The windows of the aisle are delicately moulded with capitals to their shafts, and are ornamented with a crocketed gable, ogee-shaped and topped with a prominent finial rising just above the battlements of the aisle.
Below this finial is an empty niche with a kind of ball-flower ornament at the base.
We had in England in the twelfth century a large figure serving as a finial to the central tower at Canterbury.
Where the finial joins the roof a rayed sun of cast metal is placed.
The lead finial is typically a French feature; there cannot be said to be a single instance of a large ornamental finial of lead remaining in England of the kind once so universal in France and of which so many still remain there.
An example of this method is found in a ridge and finial sketched at Bourges--the hearts and scallop shell were badges of Jacques Coeur.
Outside the church, near the top of the wall of a cupola-shaped finial of the rood loft turret is an old sun dial.
The finial before the stall of the Canon in Residence has a griffin attached to it, and that in front of the Dean's stall a lion.
The Mayor's stall, which is wider than the others, was probably that of the Wakeman, and attached to the finial in front is a grotesque ape, beneath which the supporting shaft is of open work.
Two saints stand at her side, and groups of little figures kneel at her feet, whilst from the upper finial Our Lord gives His blessing.
The finial is a three-quarter figure, and an angel occupies the spandrel between the arch and the label.
Your fourteenth century draughtsman would have no hesitation in making the finial of his canopy bigger than the head (nimbus and all) of the saint under it.
Crockets and finial are usually in strong, brassy yellow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "finial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
