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| Originating in the powerful monasteries of the paris region |
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| popularized the term Gothic |
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| masterminded the recontruction of the Abbey Church at Saint-Denis |
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| Circled the apse and facilitated the movement of worshipers through the church |
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| is the covered passage around a cloister. |
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| The intersection of two or three barrel vaults |
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| A very narrow, steeply pointed ogive arch |
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| light that comes through stained-glass windows |
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| a method of critical thought which dominated teaching by theacademics (scholastics, or schoolmen) of medieval universities |
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| is a general term describing an opening in the walls of a building, gate or fortification, and especially a grand entrance to an important structure |
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| are figures carved on the jambs of a doorway or window |
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| The simplest shape is the long opening with a pointed arch |
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| generic term applied to a circular window, but is especially used for those found in churches of the Gothic architectural style |
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| arches above a path that leads to the alter of a church |
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| shallow arched gallery within the thickness of inner wall, which stands above the nave of a church or cathedral. |
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| an upper level of a Roman basilica or of the nave of a Romanesque or Gothic church |
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| The purpose of any buttress is to resist the lateral forces pushing a wall outwards |
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| transverse section, of any building, which lies across the main body of the building |
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| is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, |
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