Fleuron (architecture)

A fleuron is a flower-shaped ornament, and in architecture may have a number of meanings: It is a collective noun for the ornamental termination at the ridge of a roof, such as a crop, finial or épi. It is also a form of stylised Late Gothic decoration in the form of a four-leafed square, often seen on crockets and cavetto mouldings. It can be the ornament in the middle of each concave face of a Corinthian abacus. Finally, it can be a form of anthemion, the decorative Greek floral decoration. File:Hôtel de ville de Bruxelles - Arcades 91.JPG|Fleuron at [[Brussels Town Hall]], Belgium File:Decorative roof finial, Buckfast Abbey - geograph.org.uk - 1159770.jpg|Fleuron as a finial File:Corinthian (PSF).png|Fleuron is the uppermost flower decoration in the center of a Corinthian capital File:Cornice plaster MET 40-170-267.jpg|Fleuron in a cornice molding File:7192 - Piraeus Arch. Museum, Athens - Stele anthemion - Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, Nov 14 2009.jpg|Fleuron as a ''anthemion'' (Greek word for flower) File:Livré-sur-Changeon (35) Église Notre-Dame 05.