7/24/2019 Gothic Architecture Terms

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1.TRACERY ornamental work of branchlike veins, esp. the lacyopenwork in the upper part of a Gothic window

2.ROSEWINDOW a circular window, usually of stained glass anddecorated with tracery symmetrical about the center

3.WHEELWINDOW a rose window having distinctly radiating

mullions or bars4.SPIRE a tall, acutely tapering pyramidal structure surmountinga steeple or tower

.STEEPLE a tall ornamental structure, usually ending in a spireand surmounting the tower of a church or other public building

!.FLYING BUTTRESS a half"arch leaning against that point in awall where the lateral thrust of an arch or fault is being e#erted,and transmitting this thrust to a body of masonry at a lowerlevel$ a characteristic of the Gothic style$ an incline bar ofmasonry carried on a segmental arch and transmitting anoutward and downward thrust from a roof or vault to a solid

buttress that through its mass transforms the thrust into avertical one

%.TREFOIL an arrangement of three foils divided by cusps andradiating from a common center

&.GARGOYLE a grotes'uely carved (gure of a human or animal,esp. one with an open mouth that serves as a spout and pro)ectsfrom a gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building

*.STAINEDGLASS glass colored or stained by having pigmentsbaked onto its surface or by having various metallic o#ides fusedinto it while in a molten state

1+. TRIFORIUM an arcaded story in a church, between the

nave arches and clerestory and corresponding to the spacebetween the vaulting and the roof of an aisle

11. CHAPEL a separately dedicated part of a church forprivate prayer, meditation, or small religious services

12. TABERNACLE a canopied recess for a religious image oricon

13. IWAN a large vaulted portal opening onto the centralcourtyard of a mos'ue$ a deep, recessed porch

14. QUADRIPARTITE VAULT a vault of which each bayconsists of two barrel vaults intersecting at right angles, makingfour triangular compartments$ the lines were the planes meet

may be ribbed or left as a groin1. SEXPARTITITE VAULT a 'uadripartite vault with the

addition of an e#tra transverse arch in the middle of the bay,passing through the intersection of the two diagonal arches