Decorative architectural devices include columns, pilasters, arcading, cornices, moldings, finials and tracery. The window frames are topped with cornices or pediments. Other features include applied decorative eave brackets, quoins and cornices. The bell towers include decorative cornices and dentils. He decorated this with quoins, cornices and sash windows. Rowhouses are constructed of brick with flat roofs and Italianate decorative cornices. All ornamentation on the friezes and cornices was done by Ernest C. Bairstow. These rooms still contain examples of some of the earliest cornices and mouldings in Scotland. There is little exterior ornamentation on Conques except necessary buttresses and cornices. The drapes were hung in straight panels from the carved and gilded 1902 wooden cornices. These signs can also be detected from window sills and cornices. Coral and gilt ornamental cornices were constructed and installed above the windows. It has four turrets with curved cornices. The building was constructed in brick-lime with ornamental towers and cornices. From the cornices the mosaic decoration begins on the walls and vault.