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ARCHITECTURE

Gothic 1 GROUND-PLAN OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL

Altar Square east end
GOTHIC BUILDINGS are characterized Trinity Chapel Monument
by rib vaults, pointed or lancet arches, (Lady Chapel)
High altar
flying buttresses, decorative tracery
and gables, and stained-glass windows. Reredos Processional path
Typical Gothic buildings include the (choir-screen)
South choir-aisle
Cathedrals of Salisbury and old Side chapel
St. Paul’s in England, and Notre Choir Sacristy
East
Dame de Paris in France (see pp.
GOTHIC STAINED transept
GLASS WITH FOLIATED 472-473). The Gothic style developed Choir-stall
SCROLL MOTIF, ON out of Romanesque architecture in
WOODEN FORM Crossing Organ
France (see pp. 468-469) in the mid-
12th century, and then spread throughout Europe. The Transept
decorative elements of Gothic architecture became highly aisle
West
developed in buildings of the English Decorated style (late transept
13th-14th century) and the French Flamboyant style
(15th-16th century). These styles are exemplified by the Staircase
Crossing pier
tower of Salisbury Cathedral and the staircase in the Arcade pier
Church of St. Maclou (see pp. 472-473), respectively. In Pier buttress (nave pier)
both of these styles, embellishments such as ballflowers Arcade
and curvilinear (flowing) tracery were used liberally. The
North Main vessel
English Perpendicular style (late 14th-15th century), porch
Nave
which followed the Decorated style, emphasized the South aisle
vertical and horizontal elements of a building. A notable North aisle
feature of this style is the hammer-beam roof.
Facade Turret
wall
GOTHIC TORUS WITH BALLFLOWERS
Limestone Block members Block members
block carved into rolls cut polygonally Trinity Chapel Choir
(Lady Chapel)
Pencil
guideline Finial
Octahedral pinnacle
with small spire
Blind semi-arch
Early stage Staggered triple
of ballflower lancet windows
carving
BLOCK AFTER BLOCK WITH MEMBERS Turretlike
INITIAL CUTTING CUT INTO ROLLS pinnacle

Parapet decorated
with blind arches
filled with trefoils
Torus Ballflower Mullion
Fillet
Stained glass
Mason’s
mark Base Cornice
Lean-to roof East transept
FINISHED BLOCK Buttress facade

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