Crowning (architecture)
The crowning is the final, higher part of a construction. Traditionally, one distinguishes in a building a Socle, a body and a crowning. This tripartition is found in a basic element of the Architecture: the column; composed of the Base, the barrel and the Capital. According to the will of expression, the composition can be done with two of these elements (base and body, base and crowning, body and crowning) or with only one (body only, base only). Just as the column can do without from its base or its capital.
These three concepts can be more or less abstract in built reality. One can distinguish physical crowning (the roof) from crowning expressed (the Corniche of an overflowing roof, the Comble S broken or Mansarde S, the Entablement several elements: Architrave, plank, consoles supporting a Cornice,…) or not-expressed (Acroterion dominating the roof, roof punt without cornice,…).
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