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| Chartres, France, ca. 1220 |
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| Abbey church, Saint-Denis, France, 1140-1144. |
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| a sharply pointed ornament capping the piers or flying buttresses; also used on cathedral facades |
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| Masonry struts that transfer the thrust of the nave vaults across the roofs of the side aisles and ambulatory to a tall pier rising above the church's exterior wall |
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| the masonry blocks that fill the area between the ribs of a groin vault |
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| a rib that crosses the nave or aisle at a 90-degree angle |
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| in plan, one of the ribs that form the "X" of a groin vault. |
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| the lowest stone of an arch; in Gothic vaulting, the lowest stone of a diagonal or transverse rib |
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| the windows below the vaults that form the nave elevation's uppermost level. By using flying buttresses and rub vaults on pointed arches, Gothic architects could build huge clerestory windows and fill them with stained glass held in place by ornamental stonework called tracery |
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| a tall, narrow window crowned by a pointed arch |
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| the story in the nave elevation consisting of arcades, usually blind arcades, but occasionally filled with stained glass |
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| the series of arches supported by piers separating the nave from the side aisles |
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| compound pier with shafts (responds) |
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| also called the cluster pier, a pier with a group, or cluster, of attached shaft, or responds, extending to the springing of the vaults. |
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