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Flying Buttress

A flying buttress is an arch or half-arch transmitting the thrust of a vault or roof from the upper part of a wall to an outer support or buttress.  The outer support or buttress is typically made of masonry or … Continue reading

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Tracery

Tracery is the ornamental intersecting work in the upper part of a window, screen, or panel, or used decoratively in blank arches and vaults. The earliest use of the term is traced to the seventeenth century, the medieval word being … Continue reading

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