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Gothic Architecture
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- 1GOTHIC ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTSFlying Buttress
Spires/Steeples
Tracery
Sprockets
Bosses
Pinnacles
Pointed arches
Stained glass windows
Choir screen
Vaults
Gargoyles
Corbel - 2—Flying Buttress
Took the weight of the roof outside the nave, allowed thinner columns - 3—Spire
Evolved from Norman bell towers
- 4—Bar Tracery (late Gothic)
Plate Tracery (simpler, early Gothic)
- 5—PINNACLE
Weighted down buttresses
Decorated with organic forms called "Sprockets"
- 6—BOSSES
Decorative, organic forms
Positioned to cover the joins of ribbed vaulting
- 7—POINTED ARCH
Designed to allow crossing of church to meet as arches of the same height
Point where arch begins is called "springing"
- 8—CORBEL
Allowed columns to "spring" straight out of wall
Highly decorative with organic forms
- 9—Sculptures reflected craftsmen or ordinary people - communicated religion to the people. Also sculpted gargoyles as reminders of hell and sin
- 10—FAN VAULTING
Thin, ribbed vaults - most useless but add to linear forms that reach up to God