Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Pinnacle

In Gothic architecture, a small turret-like termination on the top of buttresses, parapets, or elsewhere

Often ornamented with bunches of foliage called crockets

Found in Gothic, Gothic Revival, Richardsonian Romanesque, styles

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Examples from Buffalo architecture:

• Illustration above: St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral
  
  
• Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation
  
  
• St. Louis RC Church
  
  
• St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church
  
  
• Unitarian Universalist Church

Other examples:

• St.-Denis Abbey, Paris, France
  
  
• Tribune Tower, Chicago, Illinois