finial

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I don't say anything against Mr Finial as an architect, but Scott himself could make nothing of such a hideous church.

From The Perpetual Curate by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

Finial group, "The Adventurous Bowman," frieze and decoration - Hermon       A. MacNeil The group on top of the column suggests man's supreme effort in life, the supporting frieze is "The Toilers."

From The Art of the Exposition by Neuhaus, Eugen

Finial, fin′i-al, n. the bunch of foliage, &c., at the termination of the pinnacles, gables, spires, &c., in Gothic architecture.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various