Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Pinnacle

 A small turret or spire on a roof or buttress.

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:

• Right illustration above:  Rockwell Hall
  
  
• St. Louis RC Church
   
• St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral
  
  
• Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation
  
  
• St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church
  
  
• Unitarian Universalist Church
  
  
• Episcopal Church of the Ascension Wood carving
  
  
• Baker Memorial United Methodist Church, EAST AURORA  Stained glass
  

Other examples:

• Left illustration above:  Cologne Cathedral, Germany
  
  
• Segovia Cathedral, Spain
  

• Tribune Tower, Chicago, Illinois
  
  
• Milan Cathedral