Only do not allow his good designing of finials to be employed as an evidence in matters of divinity, nor thence deduce the incompatibility of Protestantism and art.
Stone finials and crockets are, I think, to be considered in architecture, what points and flashes of light are in the color of painting, or of nature.
The northern roofs, however, generally stand in little need of surface decoration, the eye being drawn to the fantastic ranges of their dormer windows, and to the finials and fringes on their points and ridges.
In Cowley Church, near Oxford, are open seats of the date of 1632, which have at the ends finials carved in the shallow angular designs of that period.
The crockets and finials of this style, as decorative embellishments, are peculiarly graceful, chaste, and pleasing in contour.
They were worked in stages, and their set-offs have frequently triangular heads, sometimes plain but often ornamented with crockets and finials of a more decorative character than those of the Early English style.
Above, to give quality to this shade, is a flat surface that runs from end to end of the facade, broken by a central semicircular window, and crowned with Gothic turrets, crocketed finials and angels with wings outspread.
The fine cupola which rises above the crossing is rather dwarfed by the Gothic arcade and finials which surround its base.
It has a fine oak staircase, the newels beautifully carved and enriched with pierced finials and pendants.
Hard by is a fine tithe barn with finials on the gables, and a 15th-cent.
The windows are traceried, and have above them figures of the four Evangelists, and ecclesiastical effigies stand as finials on two of the gables.
The conception of profusion becomes almost barbaric in the three pavilioned entrances, flanked on either side by the tall finials suggesting minarets.
The delicate finials rising from the summit of the tower express Aspiration.
The chanticleers on the finialssurrounding the court symbolize the Christian Era.
Originally they were intended asfinials to the double cascade which was to have swept down to the court from the Altar of the Ages on the tower.
Early in the stylefinials were plain bunches of leaves; towards the close beautifully carved finials and crockets with carved foliage of conventional character were introduced.
The grey finials are weather-worn and contrast well with the rich yellow and pink of the rest of the front, a façade which is absolutely crammed with intricate design.
The retablo of the High Altar is richly ornate with tapering Gothic finials of the fifteenth century; below it is a sarcophagus containing the remains of St. Severus.
The delicate taperingfinials and the figures under canopies below, are carved in wood.
The smoky old town of Edinburgh was so shaken and beaten upon and icily drenched that rattling finials and tiles were torn from ancient gables and whirled abroad.
Overhead, loose tiles and finialsrattled in the wind, that was dying away in fitful gusts; but Auld Jock heard nothing.
Footnote 215: These finials are very common on the roof ends of Siamese temples and palaces.
A square frame with flamelike border rises to the top of the side finials to enclose a field cut into squares by narrow grooves.
Unfortunately the simplicity of the design is spoilt by the broken and curly volutes which sprawl across the aisles, by ugly finials at the corners, and by a rather clumsy balustrading to the porch.
The inner side of the trefoil is cusped, crockets and finials enrich the outer moulding of the opening, while beyond the jambs are niches, now empty.
The panels behind the upper tier are divided by twisted Manoelino shafts bearing Gothic pinnacles, and the upper part of each panel is enriched with deeply undercut leaves and finials surrounding armillary spheres.
At the top are long finials with more chains holding corals on which rest armillary spheres.
The ogee and the side finials or pinnacles, which are of the same section as the outer moulding from which they spring, are made of a bundle of small rolls held together by a broad twisted ribbon.
Yet no one who sees it can help falling a victim to its fascination, for perhaps its only real fault is that the great cusps and finials are on rather too large a scale for the rest.
The apex of the gloomy porphyritic trap is a long spine of the tenderest azure-white, filmy as the finials of Milan Cathedral, and apparently melting into thin air.
Architecture - Byzantine in the arrangement of the domes (the mosque of Ahmed I of Constantinople being the inspiration) and in the use of tall finials suggesting minarets, but quite French in its ornamentation.
Primitive Man and Primitive Woman, by Albert Weinert, are seen as finials around the court.
The Chanticleers on the finials surrounding the Court symbolize the Christian Era.
Architecture - If one could call this beautiful architecture by name one might say Spanish Gothic, on account of the round-arched Gothic and also the Spanish finials used, but it is so thoroughly original that this is hardly the term to use.
The ogee arch was invented, the crockets of the pinnacles and canopies grew and increased and became finer in form, the finials larger and more varied.
These finials are an addition of the beginning of the century, and are of plaster.
Between the shafts and the pendants are trefoil arches, one to each bay, and above the arches and pendants are gables crossing each other and ending in finialsof carved oak leaves.
The bays are marked by plain aisle buttresses, terminating in three-cornered caps, with a battlement of cusped stonework ornamented with finials behind them.
Beside the boulder a willow stands, its finials budding with silver; upon the north-western face of the stone is another inscription whose legend startles a wayfarer on beholding the bulk of the huge mass.
These French finials from the 12th to the 18th centuries have been sufficiently described, especially by M.
In these finials applied castings were also used, and at the end of the fifteenth century they superseded repousse for a time.
In France the finials were mostly formed in this way.
Later, cast ornaments became general; on the Hotel Dieu at Beaune is a wonderful series of these finials made up of portions partly repousse partly cast, these have coronets of delicate open work which were cast in strips and bent round.
When there are many revolving flags to the finials on one building and these are bright with new gold, they have the delightful property of flashing the light to a great distance.
Many of the moulds in stone and plaster, for the ornaments which were used on the roofs and finials at Beaune are preserved.
At Bourges on the Hotels Jacques Coeur and Cujas are some finials consisting of little more than a lead-covered stick bearing a rod and girouettes.
The figures formed by repousse usually serve as finials on the roof, or stand in niches of the fleche.
At Hampton Court there are turret roofs, ogee with crockets andfinials and little pinnacles set round at the springing.
The lay builders who sculptured the capitals and crockets and finials of the early Gothic cathedrals adopted and followed to its finality this principle of recourse to nature, especially to plant life.
But the capitals corbels, crockets, and finials were mostly composed of floral or foliage forms.
There was little sculpture; the wall-spaces were not suppressed in favor of stained glass and tracery; while the roofs were usually emphasized and adorned with elaborate crestings and finials in lead or terra-cotta.
The chanticleers on the finials surrounding the court symbolize the dawn of Christianity.
Its decorative spire-like finials resemble the cypress and poplar.
Dividing the spaces above them, on a higher level, are repeated finials of a pert chanticleer, emblem of the east, the dawn and immortality.
They stand as finials on the continued columns that pierce the arcade wall and emphasize the arches.
At the foot of the sharply ascending spires - the slender shafts of which are carved with conventionalized vines and bear tapering flower urns as finials - stand graceful garlands of girls.
Based on another style of architecture the finials of the cloister of the Court of Ages serve a correspondingly related purpose, and the crouching figures on columns in this court are excellent examples of decorative crestings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "finials" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
