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HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2- PERIOD 2 REVIEWER GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE (1050-1530) CLOISTER “Style Ogivale” - A covered walk having an arcade or Progressive lightening and heightening colonnade on one side opening onto a of structure...

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2- PERIOD 2 REVIEWER GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE (1050-1530) CLOISTER “Style Ogivale” - A covered walk having an arcade or Progressive lightening and heightening colonnade on one side opening onto a of structure courtyard The three most important innovations of the period: the pointed arch, flying CHOIR buttress, and ribbed vaulting - Area of a church for singers, usually part of Richly decorated fenestrations (use of the chancel. stained glass) Decorations depicting stories from the LADY CHAPEL bible - Chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Latin cross plan typically behind the high altar. Facade faced west HIGH ALTAR CATHEDRAL - The main altar of a church. Chief building type of the period. PRESBYTERY A large and principal church of a - Church area reserved for officiating clergy. diocese (district under the pastoral care of a bishop) SLYPE Cathedra- the seat of a bishop. - Covered passage, often between the transept and chapter house. (FLOORPLAN 1) ROSE WINDOW CHAPTER HOUSE - Circular stained glass window with - The place where the chapter of a cathedral symmetrical tracery. or monastery meets, usually a building attached to or a hall forming part of the STAINED GLASS cathedral or monastery. - Glass colored with pigments or metallic oxides. (FLOORPLAN 2) FLYING BUTTRESS TRIFORIUM - An inclined masonry bar on a segmental - Arcaded level in a church between nave arch, transferring roof or vault thrust to a arches and clerestory. solid buttress, converting it to vertical force. CRYPT PINNACLE - Underground burial chamber, often under a - A vertical structure ending in a pyramid or church. spire, used in Gothic architecture to add weight to a buttress pier. GALILEE - Small porch at the west end of some BUTTRESS PIER medieval English churches, used as a chapel - The part of a pier that rises to take the for penitents. thrust of a flying buttress. Garth AMORTIZEMENT - A courtyard or quadrangle enclosed by a - A sloping top on a buttress or projecting cloister. Also called cloister garth. pier to shed rainwater.  HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2- PERIOD 2 REVIEWER SHAFT - A slender, vertical masonry feature in a wall or pier, supporting or feigning support for an arch or ribbed vault. GOTHIC COMPOUND PIER - Colonettes facing the nave extend upward to the vault, while those inside merge with the ribs of the side aisle vaults. RIB/RIBBED VAULT - A vault with structural arched stone ribs and masonry infill. ENGLISH GOTHIC (PARTS OF A RIB VAULT) 1. Early English DIAGONAL RIB (G) 2. Decorated Style 3. Perpendicular A rib crossing a compartment of a rib vault on a diagonal. FRENCH GOTHIC 1. A lancettes RIDGE RIB (L,M) 2. Rayonant A horizontal rib marking the crown of a 3. Flamboyant vaulting compartment. BOSS (N) (ENGLISH GOTHIC) An ornamental, knob-like projection at EARLY ENGLISH the intersection of ogives. Also known as Lancet, First Pointed or Early Plantagenet. LIERNE (K) Use of lancet-shaped arches and A tertiary rib in a vault often for plate tracery (tracery using masonry decorative rather than structural into which shapes has been cut). purposes. Example (Early English): Worcester Cathedral. TIERCERON (H) A subsidiary rib which connects a point DECORATED STYLE on the ridge rib or central boss with one Also Geometrical and Curvilinear, of the main springers or supports. Middle Pointed, Edwardian, or Later Plantagenet. Rich tracery, elaborate ornamental vaulting, and refined stone-cutting techniques.  HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2- PERIOD 2 REVIEWER Example (Decorated): Westminster Abbey PERPENDICULAR Also Rectilinear, Late Pointed, or Lancastrian. Perpendicular tracery (use of a lacework of vertical glazing bars), fine Wells Cathedral intricate stonework, and elaborate fan vaults. Examples (Fan vaults) : Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, England Bath Abbey Somerset, England Windsor Castle King’s College Chapel Cambridge, England FRANCE (FRENCH GOTHIC) Three Phases of French Gothic PRIMARIE: a lancettes, pointed arches and geometric traceried windows. SECONDAIRE: rayonnant, circular windows, wheel tracery. Notre Dame Cathedral TERTIAIRE: flamboyant, flowing and flamelike tracery. LANCETTE, RAYONNANT, FLAMBOYANT Rheims Cathedral - Figures of Mary were visible in every part of the church; houses the relic of the tunic that had allegedly belonged to the Virgin Mary. (NOTABLE STRUCTURES) ENGLAND Chartres Cathedral - Epitome of the new cathedral design where the nave on the outside is almost completely obscured behind an intimate tangle of Salisbury Cathedral. (Double transepts) buttresses.  HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2- PERIOD 2 REVIEWER GERMANY ITALY Ulm Cathedral Siena Cathedral Regarded as the tallest cathedral in the Use of striped marbles world Milan Cathedral Cologne Cathedral (OTHER BUILDING TYPES) SPAIN CASTLES Seville Cathedral Shateau D’Amboise, France - Tallest cathedral in Spain Built on mounds above rivers, with thick walls and small windows. PALAIS DE JUSTICE Burgos Cathedral Palais de Justice de Rouen, France. Barcelona Cathedral  HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2- PERIOD 2 REVIEWER FLOORPLANS (FLOORPLAN 1) (FLOORPLAN 2) HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2- PERIOD 2 REVIEWER