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Terms Used in the Guide
Decorated c.1250–c.1350
Cathedral: a church containing
This style is characterized by a cathedra, or bishop’s throne.
the use of tracery: ornamental It is the principal church of an
patterns within the top section administrative area, or diocese.
of a window or opening. Basilica: a church with a nave
Patterning also became more higher and wider than its two
elaborate in vaulting, with ribs aisles, nominally built on an
being employed for aesthetic east-west axis.
as well as structural purposes. Nave: the main, central section
Jesse Window (c.1340) of Wells of a church or cathedral.
Rose window Cathedral, with its elegant tracery Aisle: lateral section of a church,
on one or both sides of the nave.
Chancel: eastern section of a
Sloping screen church containing the altar and
choir. It is usually separated from
the nave by
a screen.
Apse: the
The West Front of semicircular
Exeter Cathedral termination of a
The cathedral church or chapel.
entrance is through Ambulatory: the aisle running
a heavily sculptured round the east end of the
screen with the church, behind the altar.
Great West Window Arcade: a set of arches with
rising above it. supporting piers or columns.
Capital: carved top
Perpendicular c.1350–c.1530 of a pier or column.
Clerestory: a row
This is an English, late Gothic of windows that light
style in which the emphasis is the nave from above
on vertical lines; windows were the aisle roof.
larger, their arches flatter and Triforium: the
lower, and the glass divided arcaded passageway located
into elaborate panels. Vaulting just below the clerestory.
became more intricate and Transept: the transverse
included fan vaulting, named section of a cruciform church.
after the ornate fan-shaped Crossing: the centre of a
semicones that radiate out Vertical lines dominating Bath cruciform church
where the transept
from the top of a pier or pillar. Abbey’s exterior
crosses the nave.
Vault: an arched
Ornamental boss Trefoil-headed panel stone ceiling.
Rib vault: a vault
supported by
projecting ribs of stone.
Buttress: a mass of masonry built
to support or strengthen a wall.
Flying buttress: an arched
support transmitting the thrust
of a vault downwards.
Gargoyle: a carved
grotesque figure,
often a waterspout.
Rose: a large,
circular window.
Also known as a
Catherine window.
Tracery: an ornamental carved
stone pattern within
a Gothic window.
The Nave Roof of Sherborne Abbey Portal: monumental
There are fans on the sides of the ceiling, lozenges at its centre entrance to a church,
and circular bosses at the intersection of the ribs on the nave roof. often decorated.
This exquisitely ornate roof dates from the late 14th century.

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