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13-644: [REDACTED] Look up gable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gables may refer to: Gable , a portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches Gables, Nebraska , an unincorporated community in the United States Gables, New South Wales , a suburb of Sydney, Australia Ken Gables (1919-1960), Major League Baseball pitcher See also [ edit ] Gable (disambiguation) The Gables (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

26-568: A front-gabled or gable-fronted building faces the street with its gable, a side-gabled building faces it with its cullis (gutter), meaning the ridge is parallel to the street. The terms are used in architecture and city planning to determine a building in its urban situation. Front-gabled buildings are considered typical for German city streets in the Gothic period, while later Renaissance buildings, influenced by Italian architecture, are often side-gabled. In America, front-gabled houses, such as

39-478: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages gable A parapet made of a series of curves ( Dutch gable ) or horizontal steps ( crow-stepped gable ) may hide the diagonal lines of the roof. Gable ends of more recent buildings are often treated in the same way as the Classic pediment form. But unlike Classical structures, which operate through trabeation ,

52-639: The Romanesque style, but conical caps to circular buttresses, with finial terminations, are not uncommon in France at very early periods. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc gives examples from Saint-Germer-de-Fly Abbey and the Basilica of Saint-Remi , and there is one of similar form at the west front of Rochester Cathedral . In the 12th-century Romanesque two examples have been cited, one from Bredon in Worcestershire , and

65-523: The gablefront house , were popular between the early 19th century and 1920. A Wimperg , in German and Dutch , is a Gothic ornamental gable with tracery over windows or portals , which were often accompanied by pinnacles . It was a typical element in Gothic architecture, especially in cathedral architecture . Wimpergs often had crockets or other decorative elements in the Gothic style. The intention behind

78-663: The cap or crown of a buttress or small turret , but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations. The pinnacle looks like a small spire . It was mainly used in Gothic architecture . The pinnacle had two purposes: The accounts of Jesus' temptations in Matthew's and Luke's gospels both suggest that the Second Temple in Jerusalem had one or more pinnacles ( Greek : το πτερυγιον του ιερου ): Some have stated that there were no pinnacles in

91-405: The gable ends of many buildings are actually bearing-wall structures. Gable style is also used in the design of fabric structures , with varying degree sloped roofs, dependent on how much snowfall is expected. Sharp gable roofs are a characteristic of the Gothic and classical Greek styles of architecture. The opposite or inverted form of a gable roof is a V-roof or butterfly roof . While

104-572: The other from Cleeve in Gloucestershire . In these the buttresses run up, forming a sort of square turret, and crowned with a pyramidal cap, very much like those of the next period, the Early English . In this and the following styles, mainly in Gothic architecture , the pinnacle seems generally to have had its appropriate uses. It was a weight to counteract the thrust of the vaults , particularly where there were flying buttresses ; it stopped

117-621: The pinnacles were often supported on these shafts alone, and were open below; and in larger work in this and the subsequent periods they frequently form niches and contain statues. About the Transition and during the Decorated Gothic period , the different faces above the angle shafts often finish with gablets. Those of the last-named period are much richer, and are generally decorated with crockets and finials, and sometimes with ball flowers . Very fine groups are found at Beverley Minster and at

130-581: The rise of the spire of St Mary's, Oxford . Perpendicular pinnacles differ but little from Decorated, except that the crockets and finials are of later character. They are also often set angle-ways, particularly on parapets, and the shafts are panelled. In France pinnacles, like spires, seem to have been in use earlier than in England. There are small pinnacles at the angles of the tower in the Saintes Cathedral . At Roullet-Saint-Estèphe there are pinnacles in

143-500: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Gables . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gables&oldid=1172450504 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

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156-573: The tendency to slip of the stone copings of the gables , and counterpoised the thrust of spires ; it formed a pier to steady the elegant perforated parapets of later periods; and in France especially served to counterbalance the weight of overhanging corbel tables, huge gargoyles , etc. In the Early English period the small buttresses frequently finished with gablets , and the more important with pinnacles supported with clustered shafts. At this period

169-403: The wimperg was the perception of increased height. The gable end roof is a poor design for hurricane or tornado -prone regions. Winds blowing against the gable end can exert tremendous pressure, both on the gable and on the roof edges where they overhang it, causing the roof to peel off and the gable to cave in. Pinnacle A pinnacle is an architectural element originally forming

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