Gothic Architecture

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GOTHIC ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS	Flying Buttress Spires/Steeples Tracery Sprockets Bosses Pinnacles Pointed arches Stained glass windows Choir screen Vaults Gargoyles Corbel
Image: Flying_Buttress (image/jpg)	Flying Buttress Took the weight of the roof outside the nave, allowed thinner columns
Image: Spire (image/jpg)	Spire Evolved from Norman bell towers
Image: Bar_Tracery (image/jpg)	Bar Tracery (late Gothic) Plate Tracery (simpler, early Gothic)
Image: Pinnacle (image/jpg)	PINNACLE Weighted down buttresses Decorated with organic forms called "Sprockets"
Image: Bosses (image/jpg)	BOSSES Decorative, organic forms Positioned to cover the joins of ribbed vaulting
Image: Pointed_arch.gif (image/gif)	POINTED ARCH Designed to allow crossing of church to meet as arches of the same height Point where arch begins is called "springing"
Image: corbel (image/jpg)	CORBEL Allowed columns to "spring" straight out of wall Highly decorative with organic forms
Image: 2.-Toothache-1-437x300 (image/jpg)	Sculptures reflected craftsmen or ordinary people - communicated religion to the people. Also sculpted gargoyles as reminders of hell and sin
Image: fan_vaulting (image/jpg)	FAN VAULTING Thin, ribbed vaults - most useless but add to linear forms that reach up to God

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