A bay is a module in classical or Gothic architecture, the distance between two supports of a vault…
Lichfield Cathedral is situated in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. It is the only medieval English…
The Catholic Cathedral of Limburg, also known as Georgsdom or Limburger Dom in German…
A bay is a module in classical or Gothic architecture, the distance between two supports of a vault…
The Cathedral of St Martin (Italian Duomo) is a church in Lucca, Italy. It was begun in 1063 by Bishop…
A flying buttress, or arc-boutant, is a specific type of buttress usually found on a religious building…
A French Gothic capital from Sainte Chapelle in Paris from the thirteenth century. The capitals were…
A fourteenth century capital from transept of Notre Dame, Paris. The capitals were tall and slender,…
A fifteenth century capital from the north spire of Chartres. The capitals were tall and slender, concave…
Constructive system of a Gothic church illustrating the principles of isolated supports and buttressing.
The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296…
The Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St. Cuthbert of Durham, commonly referred…
The facade of a large church or cathedral, often referred to as the West Front, is generally designed…
The Elisabeth Church in Marburg was built by the Order of the Teutonic Knights in honor of Elisabeth…
A groin vault or groined vault (also sometimes known as a double barrel vault or cross vault) is produced…
Very few examples remain of important Norman façades in their original form, nearly all of these…
The English treated woodwork with consummate skill. They invented and developed a variety of forms of…
A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. A wimperg…
With the growth in size of the windows and the progressive suppression of the lateral walls of vaulted…
A ribbed vault of the English type with divided groin-ribs and ridge-ribs.
Sexpartite vault (or six-part vault), in architecture, is a rib vault divided into six bays by two diagonal…
A Rose window (or Catherine window) is often used as a generic term applied to a circular window, but…
La Sainte-Chapelle (English: The Holy Chapel) is a Gothic chapel on the Île de la Cité…
The transept is the area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform ("cross-shaped") building in Romanesque…
A: Penetrations by small semi-circular vaults sprung from same level. B: Intersection by small semicircular…