Gothic Architecture

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Norman Gothic

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This style was characterized by semi-circular arched windows, cylindrical piersband flat buttresses

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Transitional Gothic

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This style was characterized by pointed arches introduced into structures with Romanesque character

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Early English Gothic

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-This style was characterized by long, pointed, narrow, lancet windows

-Use of projecting buttresses, pinnacles and steep-pitched roofs

-Minimal ornamentation and less detailed tracery

-Notable building: Salisbury Cathedral

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Called Lancet or First Pointed Style

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Decorated Gothic

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-This style was characterized by fanciful window tracery

-Elaborate windows are subdivided by closely spaced mullions, the mullions then branch out and cross, intersecting to fill the top part of the window with elaborate tracery

-The style started out as geometrical at first but later omitted the circles in window for more flowing design

-Notable design: West Front of York Minster

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Also called Second Pointed

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Decorated Geometric Style

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Upper part of the window is surmounted by a circle

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A style from the Decorated Gothic Period

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Decorated Curvilinear Style

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The upper part of the window head might be filled with trefoils, quatrefoils or dagger shapes

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A style from the Decorated Gothic period

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Perpendicular Gothic

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-This style was characterized by an emphasis on strong vertical lines in window tracery and wall paneling

-Notable building: Gloucester Cathedral

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Also called 3rd Pointed, Rectilinear, International Gothic or Late Gothic

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Tudor Gothic

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This style was a shift from the pointed, ornate Gothic style to a more subdued style

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Also called Late Perpendicular

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Elizabethan Gothic

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Was characterized by the use of mullioned windows

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Tudor Arch

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A four-centered arch

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Oriel Window

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Projects from the wall supported by brackets or corbels

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Half Timbering

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Use of wooden support and frame with the spaces between filled with lighter materials such as bricks or plaster

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Broached Spire

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Has a square base but is gradually carried into a tapering octagonal spire

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Fleur-de-lis

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Royal Arms of England

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Portcullis

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Was a mark of the beaufort lineage of Henry VII, founder of the Tudor Dynasty

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Tudor Rose

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Royal Emblem of England

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Boss

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Projecting ornament use to cover the intersections of the ribs