An underground chamber or vault used as a burial place, esp. one beneath the main floor of a church.

An arcaded story in a church, between the nave arches and clerestory and coresponding to the space between the vaulting and the roof of an aisle.

A circular window, usually of stained glass and decorated with tracery symmetrical about the center.

A small porch used as a chapel for penitents at the west end of some medieval English churches. Also, _____ porch.

An inclined bar of masonry carried on a segmental arch and transmitting an outward and downward thrust from a roof or vault to a solid buttress that through its mass transforms the thrust into a vertical one. Also caled arc-boutant.

A subordinate vertical structure terminating in a pyramid or spire, used esp. in Gothic architecture to add weight to a buttress pier.

The part of a pier that rises to take the thrust of a flying buttress.

A sloping top on a buttress or projecting pier to shed rainwater.

A vault constructed of structural arched stone members or ribs with an infill of masonry.

A rib crossing a compartment of a rib vault on a diagonal.

A horizontal rib marking the crown of a vaulting compartment.

An ornamental, knob-like projection at the intersection of ogives.

A tertiary rib in a vault often for decorative rather than structural purposes.

A subsidiary rib which connects a point on the ridge rib or central boss with one of the main springers or supports.

which empire rule across northern mesopotamian?

which classification was actually influence by the pre-historic dwelling was erectec in a short elevation because of the composition of the earth?

which era is the medieval ages

what is the tallest gothic church in the largest cathedral in france?

because of the pointed arch exert less out ward pressure it allows to the construction of what kind of space in a gothic church?

what is the name of the church shown in the illustration?