What is not a feature of Gothic Architecture?

Where did Gothic Architecture originate from?

What did architects of this time use in their work?

Every vertical support in Gothic architecture depended for its stability on being stayed by a buttress, which in its turn was weighted by a _____ ; and every arch-thrust met another which counter- acted it.

The painted glass windows had

a gallery or arcade above the arches of the nave, choir, and transepts of a church.

What is the most defining feature of Gothic Architecture?

Spaces of Irregular plan bring transverse vaults to the same height as diagonal vaults.

Ornamented keystones; constructive necessity; it covers the awkward junction of the various ribs meeting at all angles.

Pointed Arch became permanently established. (Early English - 1300's, Decorated - 1400's)

A major rib in a complex rib vault. _____ spring from the main springers. During the Gothic period, it had an increase and elaboration.

In Gothic Architecture, A new set of ribs known as ____ was established. In French, it means to bind or hold. A minor rib in a complex rib vault. It does not spring from the main springers.

Steeply pointed pyramidal or conical termination to a tower.

Buttresses that help hold the vault up. It is made with an arch that jumps over a lower part of the building to reach the outside wall.

Narrow stone walls jutting out from the building to help hold it up.

Decorative upper termination of a pinnacle, gable end, buttress, canopy, or spire.

Carved stone lace in the windows and on the walls.

Tracery which uses thick areas of stone to separate glozed areas.

Decorative architectural tracery that is formed by the curves and intersections of the molded bars of mullions.

The earliest kind of this bar tracery.

A form of bar tracery used in the early 14th century, with net-like patterns of ogee- (double-curved) ended lozenges.

The principal mullions generally continue to the head of the arch, creating long rectangular divisions in the upper lights.

Richly colored glass in the windows.

Columns bundled together.

Creatures that spout water from the roof.

What is not a building type of Gothic Architecture?

Largest and most important medieval Gothic buildings in Europe.

·Town is contained within its walls

· One of the most impressive architectural marvels in the world

· Late 9th century, the largest castle in the world.

· Four, palaces, four churches and many gardens done.

· Symbol of Vienna

· One of the most important Gothic structures in Austria

· Colorful roof tiles to create the royal and imperial double-headed eagle and the coat of arms in the city of Vienna.

· Birthplace of Gothic Architecture.

· Protectorate of the Monarchy.

· Burial Site of French Kings.

· Tallest gothic church and largest cathedral in France

· One of the largest classic Gothic churches in the 13th century

· Marks the high point of French Gothic Art

· Cathedral is also celebrated for its many stained glass windows and sculptures.

· Kings of France were once crowned

· Member of the illustrious triad of "High Gothic" or "Classical" French cathedrals built in the 13th Century.

· Most famous of French Gothic Architecture, sculpture and stained glasses.

· Typical gothic church plan.

(13th Century) A period characterized by circular windows with wheel tracery, as at Reims, Amiens. It's English equivalent is "Decorated Gothic"

(14th Century) The flame-like window tracery or free flowing tracery. It's English equivalent is "Perpendicular Gothic".

It is the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe and has the second-tallest spires.

The cathedral took nearly six centuries to complete: construction began in 1386, and the final details were completed in 1965. It is the largest church in the Italian Republic

It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and a burial site for English and, later, British monarchs.

A vault constructed of structural arched stone members or ribs with an infill of masonry.

Parts of a Rib Vault: (G) Rib crossing a compartment of a rib vault on a diagonal.

Parts of a Rib Vault: (L,M) Horizontal Rib marking the crown of a vaulting compartment.

Parts of a Rib Vault: (N) An ornamental, knob-like projection at the intersection of ogives.

Parts of a Rib Vault: (K) A tertiary rib in a vault often for decorative rather than structural purposes.

Parts of a Rib Vault: (H) A subsidiary rib which connects a point on the ridge rib or central boss with one of the main springers or support.

What is considered an English Gothic?

What is not considered a French Gothic?

It uses lancet-shaped arches and plate tracery.

Also known as Lancet, First Pointed or Early Plantagenet.