The Textbook of Architecture

The Cabinet of Models

The pinnacle after Roriczer

A pinnacle generated from one square: rotated squares give the widths of spire and finial, multiples of the side give the heights.

The pinnacle after Roriczer Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Gothic

The rules it illustrates

A pinnacle from one square. Draw a square the width of the pinnacle; inscribe a second square on the mid-points of its sides, and a third on the mid-points of the second. Turned back into line, the squares give the widths of the body, its panels and the spire; every height is a multiple of the first side.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Romanesque and Gothic.

The terms it shows

Pinnacle