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in Gothic
Architecture to add weigh to a buttress pier.
Fletche a slender spire rising from the ridge of a roof esp. one above the crossing of a Gothic
church.
Net Vaulting a vault constructed of intersecting ribs which give the impression of a web or a
net.
Steeple a tall ornamental structure usually ending in a spire and surrounding the tower of a
church or other public building.
Crocket a projected ornament, usually in the form of curved foliage used to decorate the outer
angles of pinnacles, spires and gables.
Lancet lancet windows were the most common style in the early medieval period, and the
most common window of the Early English Gothic style. Pointed Gothic arch.
Lantern a tower or small turret with windows, crowning a dome or cupola. Often glazed;
provides light or ventilation to the space below.
Bowtell - a plain, convex molding, usually three quarters of a circle in section. A torus or round
molding. The shaft of a clustered pillar. A roll molding. A quarter round or ovolo.
Formeret one of the ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.
Cloister a covered walk having an arcade or colonnade on one side opening onto a courtyard.
Chevet the rounded east end of a Gothic cathedral including the apse and ambulatory.
Stained Glass - a manifestation of the belief that a cathedral could be an image of the truth
communicating a vision of heaven.
Bourges Cathedral notable for simplicity of its plan without transepts but adopted double-
aisled design found also in Early Christian basilica of St. Peters in Rome or in Notre Dame,
Paris.
Amiens Cathedral Largest French Cathedral, which deepened and perfected the tripartite
elevation. Chevet of 7 chapels. Over 5,000 sculptured figures faade.