Fig. t.—Perpendicular Finial.
Finial.—A formally arranged bunch of foliage or other similar ornament forming the top of a pinnacle, gablet, or other ornamented feature of Gothic architecture.
Flamboyant Style.—The late Gothic architecture of France at the end of the fifteenth century, so called from the occurrence of flame-shaped forms in the tracery.
Flèche.—A name adapted from the French. A slender spire, mostly placed on a roof; not often so called if on a tower.
Flying Buttress.—A buttress used to steady the upper and inner walls of a vaulted building, placed at some distance from the wall which it supports, and connected with it by an arch.
Fig. u.—Flying Buttress.
Foil.—A leaf-shaped form produced by adding cusps to the curved outline of a window head or piece of tracery.