Main Architectural Features!

For my group, we didn't get the chance to make our gingerbread cathedral so i am going to talk about all of the features of the cathedral:
- Pointed Arches
- Rose Windows
- Flying Buttresses
- Gargoyles
- Tympanum

Pointed Arches- The Pointed Arch is considered one of the defining characteristics of medieval churches constructed in the Gothic Style, similar arches were used in Middle Eastern architecture hundreds of years before they employed in Western Europe. Pointed Arches were used to direct weight onto load-bearing columns at a sharp angle, Thus allowing for much taller vaulted ceilings.

Rose Windows- A large circular window, usually glazed with stained glass, having stone tracery radiating from the center, often with intricate petal-like patterns.

Flying Buttresses- An arched masonry support serving to bear thrust, as from a roof or vault, away from a main structure to an outer pier or buttress.

Stained Glass Windows- In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque, usually made of granite, with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between.

Tympanum- an architectural element located within the arch or pediment



Now, I didn't know what most of these words meant to be honest so I did look them up in the Urban Dictionary so all of this credit goes to that but yess I just basically explained what they are aha, the definition of them! :3 hope that was good enough