crestings

This immense stone structure, embellished with airy columns, pointed arches, statues, inscriptions, delicate crestings, and flanked by two needles or aerial arrows, rises toward the heavens, a sublime invocation of Christian genius.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

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 Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition Stella George Stern Perry 1916

Diego de Muros, founder of the great college at Salamanca known as the Oviedo, had the crestings of the porch wrought by Pedro de Bunyeres and Juan de Cerecedo, while

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Some are constructed of stone, and some of the later ones of metal-work, but they are mostly of wood and usually consist of close panelling below -- often decorated with painted figures of saints -- and open screenwork above, supporting tracery and richly carved cornices and crestings.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

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.

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

The exquisite polychromy of its beautiful reliefs and the perfection of its rich details of cornice, pediment, tiling, and crestings, make it an exceedingly interesting and instructive example of the minor architecture of the period.

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

These invariably slope downward in a curve, and the tiling, with its hip-ridges, crestings, and finials in terra-cotta or metal, adds materially to the picturesqueness of the general effect.

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

a simple high-pitched slate roof, with terra-cotta hiprolls, crestings, and finials.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 Various