To the roof line the Nauvoo Temple displayed a form of the classical style: pilasters (with base, shaft and capital) dividing the exterior walls into a bays. Above the capitals rested an entablature composed of an uninterrupted architrave, with a frieze of triglyphs (starstones) and metopes (circular windows), and a running cornice. This classical formula was abandonded with the inclusion of a rectangular fore-attic, instead of the traditional triangular pediament, which was apparently Weeks' first choice.