I’m not sure if these are actually called crenellations or not. I know that there is a name for them, although “crenellation” is almost certainly not it as they aren’t square and aren’t on a castle.
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The OED website would seem to agree (or at least, not refute outright!):
2. Collective name for the various parts (lintel, jambs, and their mouldings) that surround a doorway or window. Also attrib.
1663 GERBIER Counsel 76 Architrave doore-cases. 1725 POPE Odyss. XXI. 46 Folding gates..With pomp of various architrave o’erlay’d. 1847 BARHAM Ingol. Leg. (1877) 85 With a shell-pattern’d architrave over the door.
3. Ornamental moulding round the exterior of an arch. Also attrib.
1849 FREEMAN Archit. 152 The arches too are channeled with architrave mouldings.
Although this is neither round a door nor an arch. It runs around the roofline of the shelter on the station.
I think it’s an architrave
The OED website would seem to agree (or at least, not refute outright!):
2. Collective name for the various parts (lintel, jambs, and their mouldings) that surround a doorway or window. Also attrib.
1663 GERBIER Counsel 76 Architrave doore-cases. 1725 POPE Odyss. XXI. 46 Folding gates..With pomp of various architrave o’erlay’d. 1847 BARHAM Ingol. Leg. (1877) 85 With a shell-pattern’d architrave over the door.
3. Ornamental moulding round the exterior of an arch. Also attrib.
1849 FREEMAN Archit. 152 The arches too are channeled with architrave mouldings.
Although this is neither round a door nor an arch. It runs around the roofline of the shelter on the station.