Clipart images of numerous examples of gothic architecture, from full churches and buildings to structural details. Gothic architecture is defined as the archiecture noted from the 12th to 16th century, originating in France. It superceded Romanesque architecture, and preceded renaissance.
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Plate Tracery, Charlton-on-Oxmore
With the growth in size of the windows and the progressive suppression of the lateral walls of vaulted structures, stained glass came more and more generally into use. It stimulated the increase in th... |
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Rheims, Cathedral of
The Cathedral of Rheims is also known as Notre-Dame de Rheims in French. It is a Roman Catholic Cathedral, located in Rheim, France. It was the site of where the Kings of France were once crowned. The... |
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Ribbed Vault, English
A ribbed vault of the English type with divided groin-ribs and ridge-ribs.... |
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Ribbed Vault, Sexpartite
Sexpartite vault (or six-part vault), in architecture, is a rib vault divided into six bays by two diagonal ribs and three transverse ribs.
Legend: a, transverse ribs (doubleaux); b, wall-ribs (forme... |
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Rose Window
"A Rose Window is a circular window, divided into compartments by mullions and tracery radiating from a center, also called Catharine wheel and marigold window according to modifications of the design... |
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Rose Window, Church of St. Ouen, Rouen
A Rose window (or Catherine window) is often used as a generic term applied to a circular window, but is especially used for those found in churches of the Gothic architectural style and being divided... |
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Sainte Chapelle (Plan)
La Sainte-Chapelle (English: The Holy Chapel) is a Gothic chapel on the Île de la Cité in the heart of Paris, France. It is perhaps the high point of the full tide of the rayonnante perio... |
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St. Asaph Cathedral
St Asaph Cathedral, (Welsh: Eglwys Gadeiriol Llanelwy) at St Asaph, Denbighshire, north Wales, is sometimes claimed to be the smallest Anglican cathedral in Britain.... |
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St. Etienne
"St. Etienne, Caen." —D'Anvers, 1895... |
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St. Martins-in-the-fields
"St. Martins-in-the-fields." —D'Anvers, 1895... |
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St. Pancras Church Ruins, Canterbury
St Pancras Old Church is a Church of England parish church on Pancras Road in North London. It is believed to be one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in London and in England.... |
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St. Saturnin
"St. Saturnin at Toulouse." —D'Anvers, 1895... |
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St. Sernin, Toulouse (Plan)
"It was in Central France, and mainly along the Loire, that the systematic development of vaulted church architecture began. Naves covered with barrel-vaults, sometimes of pointed section, appear in a... |
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Strasbourg, Cathedral of
The cathedral of Strasbourg is a roman catholic cathedral located in Strasbourg, France. The church was erected by the bishop St. Argobast of the Strasbourg Diocese during the end of the 7th century. ... |
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Tracery
Plate tracery from Etton Church.... |
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Tracery
Bar tracery from Meopham Church.... |
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Tracery
Bar tracery from Northfleet.... |
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Tracery
Detail from King's College Chapel, Cambridge.... |
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Tracery
Perpendicular wall tracery.... |
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Tracery
Plate tracery from Carlisle Cathedral, England.... |
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Tracery
Geometric tracery from Rippington Churrch, England.... |
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Tracery
Geometric tracery from the chapter house of York Cathedral, England.... |
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Tracery
Curvilinear tracery from St. Michael's, Warfield, England.... |
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Tracery
Transept rose from Westminster Abbey, England.... |
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Tracery
Tracery is the intersection in various forms of the mullions in the head of a window or screen.... |