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| walkway or aisle around the apse, helped to direct pilgrim traffic |
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| stone support attached to exterior wall |
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| donated/ owned by wealthy families burial spaces or private chapels |
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| French name for area of choir, ambulatory, radiating chapels |
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| square or rectangular area between the apse and transept |
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| Piers rise into segmented colonnettes to create ribs of transverse, longitudinal or diagonal arches over the nave |
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| where nave crosses the transept, often topped by dome or tower |
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exterior arched, stone support placed at the spring line of arched vault and joined to large piers that stand separate from the main structure and which resist lateral forces and carry loads to ground below
example: Notre Dame |
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| interior carving of wood or stone along walls, under altars, in panels, in doors. Looks like scrolls of linen |
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| type of ornamentation, like a four leaf clover |
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| thin ribs of stone that run diagonally and transversely that help to support and stiffen the vault |
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| Large, round window with radiating tracery above west façade and arms of transept |
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| delicate lace-like motif carved in stone in windows of gothic church/ cathedral |
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| projecting, reinforcing arch used to stiffen barrel vault from column to column |
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| semicircular area over portals |
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| west façade, central portal bracketed by two towers |
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