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1. Archivolt

a series of concentric bands framing the tympanum

2. Bar Tracery

slender pieces of stone and lead added on the inside of the window

3. Barrel Vault

semi-cylindrical vault is really a deep series of arches one behind the other, over an oblong space

4. Breviary

a book of selected prayers and psalms

5. Clerestory

the fenestrated part of a building that rises above the roof of the other parts

6. Compound Pier

a pier with a group or cluster of attached responds

7. Crossing Tower

over the crossing of the church

8. Fan Vault

one whose radiating ribs form a fan

9. Flamboyant Tracery

flamelike tracery made up of curves and countercurves

10. Fleur-de-lis

a three-petaled iris which was the symbol of the French royal family

11. Flying Buttresses

exterior aches which spring from the lower roof over the aisle and ambulatory and counter the outward thrust of the nave vaults

12. Gothic Architecture

(1200-1400 AD) these churches were regarded as images of the City of God, the New Jerusalem. They were characterized height, possible because of the pointed arch and flying buttresses which these high walls and stained glass windows.

13. Hallenkircke

hall churches; the aisles rise to the same height as the nave

14. Lancets

tall, narrow windows ending in pointed arches

15. Mendicant

begging orders-Franciscans

16. Oculus

a small round window

17. Ogee Arches

two double lines meeting at a point

18. Perpendicular Gothic

the last English Gothic style characterized by a strong vertical emphasis

19. Pieta

a painted or carved representation of Mary with the dead Christ in her arms

20. Pinnacle

a sharply pointed ornament capping a pier or a flying buttress

21. Plate Tracery

a solid stone block which was carved so the glass could be embedded

22. Quatrefoil

tracery forms a cloverleaf with four lobes

23. Rayonnant

the radiant style of the high Gothic age

24. Responds

an engaged column or pilaster

25. Rib Vault

were supported by arches which formed an armature, a skeletal framework

26. Rose Window

a circular window with stained glass and stone tracery used on the facades and the ends of the transepts in Gothic cathedrals

27. Tracery

ornamental stone work in Gothic windows which supported the pieces of glass

28. Trefoil

tracery forms a cloverleaf with three lobes

29. Triforiums

a band of arcades, frequently blind arcades, below the clerestory. Its insertion frequently results in a four story elevation