| 单词 | flying buttress |
| 例句 | The gargoyles were installed on the buttresses and connected to the gutters at the base of the roof by a channel along the top of the flying buttresses. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z This force was transferred through the flying buttress to the buttress itself and then down to the foundation. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z To build the flying buttresses it was first necessary to construct temporary wooden frames called centerings. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z On the scaffolding wooden centerings like those used for the flying buttresses were installed. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z They acted as temporary flying buttresses until the stone arch was complete. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z When work resumed, the flying buttresses of the choir were completed and the centering was readied for the first stones of the vault. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z No one asked whether we wanted to learn about flying buttresses or naves. Perspective | Our 6-year-old has a fun, comfortable life. Why isn’t she grateful? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z I'm so engrossed by Clark's description of flying buttresses – a supporting architectural structure that allowed early cathedrals to become taller and more grandiose – that I almost forget to snigger at the word "buttress". One man vs Civilisation 2011-02-05T00:03:00Z The exterior is a bold white array of patterned curves, with a line of wires like flying buttresses at the front, all above extensive parking space. Dance Review: ?Tom Sawyer? by Kansas City Ballet - Review 2011-10-24T22:02:52Z What is more real to us today – the doings of medieval British kings, or the elegance of the gothic flying buttresses of York Minster? Europe has been building a secret community of culture 2010-11-23T20:00:00Z When I appeared nude in a play on Broadway in the early 70s, a nasty little critic said I was built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses. Diana Rigg: ‘Becoming a sex symbol overnight shocked me’ 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z I left through the main gates, passing under striking domes, Gothic spires, flying buttresses and a scene of Jesus and his apostles carved from stone. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z Boyd is a terrific Brahms conductor, especially with the construction of this piece, with melodic lines leaning delicately on one another like flying buttresses supporting a cathedral. Review: Trilling birds and a sedate waltz, expertly delivered by Serkin at the SSO 2011-02-11T23:25:06Z “I really like the way they read as cornrows but also to me look like flying buttresses — an older architectural detail,” she added of the braids. An Artist Ascendant: Simone Leigh Moves Into the Mainstream 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Rest assured: This isn’t a study of flying buttresses and stained glass. Review | 7 beautiful books that transport you to the worlds of Bond, Tolkien, Spider-Man and beyond 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Giant palm trunks were to be flying buttresses for multiple roofs, which were to be sheathed in pandanus leaves. Harry Gesner, Architect of Soaring California Style, Dies at 97 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z For me, the word conjures images of an ancient Eastern Germanic tribe, a flying buttress and myself circa 2003, loitering in front of a rack of studded belts at Hot Topic. Mystics, Monsters and the Macabre: Visual Books Honor the Occult 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Through the centuries, the cathedral’s windows were widened and the flying buttresses reconstructed. Notre Dame’s new spire is underway, with hopes of late 2024 reopening 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Its tall branches tower above me like flying buttresses, its wide canopy is a sanctuary. Giving Thanks for a Beloved Sugar Maple 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z And then there is the structure itself, with its towering walls of stone, its flying buttresses and its weird populace of gargoyles and grotesques watching the city from on high. National Cathedral raises $115 million for earthquake repairs, future 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z But the pandemic has forced the 127-year-old cathedral to rethink its future as a local, national and international institution beyond its flying buttresses. Closed for Christmas, Washington National Cathedral is more popular than ever 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z The cathedral spire is impressive – built in the 13th and 14th centuries, the tallest in Britain, octagonal, with flying buttresses and scissor arches, and praised by Sir Christopher Wren and Malcolm Muggeridge as a marvel. 'A chain of stupidity': the Skripal case and the decline of Russia's spy agencies 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z The vault is punctured by three gaping holes, and the flying buttresses are propped up by giant wooden blocks. Marking Notre-Dame Fire in a Locked-Down Paris 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Gaudí’s visionary adaptation of nature’s supporting structures enabled its columns to grow miraculously tall, without the expected scaffold of gothic flying buttresses. Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família: a landmark of its time 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z And the damage threatened the delicate balance of forces between the vault and the cathedral’s flying buttresses: The entire building teetered on possible collapse. Scientists are leading Notre Dame’s restoration—and probing mysteries laid bare by its devastating fire 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The two-story orb nestles in a cocoon of pipes and cables, the red coils of its main magnet arching up out of the chaos like flying buttresses. After decades of decline, the U.S. national fusion lab seeks a rebirth 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z And so Notre Dame’s clerestory windows were enlarged, the roofs changed and the flying buttresses reconstructed, although the cathedral remained relatively dark despite its fashionable update. Perspective | The battle for Notre Dame: As the cathedral rises from the ashes, a tug-of-war is waged over its transformation 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The vault is still punctured by gaping holes, and the flying buttresses are propped up by giant wooden blocks. Notre-Dame Will Not Host Christmas Mass, a First in More Than 200 Years 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z As sad as Bork was to see the damage to the famous cathedral, he said the way the spire fell saved the flying buttresses from major damage. Iowa researchers use laser scans to map state’s landmarks 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Because its 19th-century spire and much of its roof were consumed in Monday’s fire, Notre Dame’s flying buttresses now seem to climb to nowhere. Holy Week continues, and Paris life resumes, without Notre Dame 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z The cathedral, with its famous stained-glass windows and signature flying buttresses, took 200 years to build, beginning in 1163. Emmanuel Macron says Notre Dame to be rebuilt in five years 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z By 1182, much of the cathedral’s choir — the liturgical core of the building, then reserved for the clergy — with its iconic flying buttresses supporting its tall walls and roof, had been completed. Perspective | The battle for Notre Dame: As the cathedral rises from the ashes, a tug-of-war is waged over its transformation 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Unlike a symmetrical classical building a gothic cathedral is not an image of order but living disorder where flying buttresses sprout, mighty columns soar, lofty galleries conceal prayers and plotters. Notre Dame and the culture it inspired – from Matisse to the Muppets 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z This led to two decades of restorations, including the cathedral’s famous flying buttresses and a reconstructed spire. A devastated art world wept and watched as Notre Dame burned 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Situated on the Ile de la Cite, an island in the Seine River, the cathedral’s architecture is famous for, among other things, its many gargoyles and its iconic flying buttresses. Cardinal Dolan says Notre Dame Cathedral will rise again: 'This fire won’t have the last word' 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Situated on the Ile de la Cite, an island in the Seine river, its architecture is famous for, among other things, its many gargoyles and its iconic flying buttresses. Massive fire engulfs beloved Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z "We are there, like a flying buttress to support the cathedral," he told reporters. EU gives impetus to joint defence plan 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z If Notre Dame survives it will be because the flying buttresses did their job. Notre Dame and the culture it inspired – from Matisse to the Muppets 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The winning entry, which still stands proudly on the corner of Michigan Avenue, was a neo-gothic fantasy of stone piers and flying buttresses, a rocket ship conjured from 16th-century France. Rocket ships, eagles and wedding cakes: the Chicago contest that led to a skyscraper explosion 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z "The flying buttresses, if they are not in place, the choir could come down," he says. Notre Dame Cathedral Is Crumbling. Who Will Help Save It? 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The facade rises with concrete columns that angle back and forth to give the structure a saw-toothed profile, a detail that Mr. Handel said was inspired by the cathedral’s flying buttresses. New Rentals Steps From St. John the Divine 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z They employed such Gothic touches as shields and gargoyle-like rainspouts and crowned the building with a Gothic tower complete with stylized flying buttresses. Art Deco icon converting to condos as downtown L.A. faces shortage 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z And these pincers connect to arms in the shape of flying buttresses, which support the structure much in the same way they were used to strengthen medieval cathedrals. Mars probe 'inspired by lobsters' 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z The Utah Republican probably couldn’t tell a flying buttress from a mansard roof. Doors opening at FCC 2013-03-20T23:50:52Z Crusaders prayed beneath the world's first flying buttresses as they set off on holy wars. Paris Notre Dame cathedral turns 850 2012-12-25T00:20:35Z We're guessing they must have had a fondness for pointed arches, ribbed vaults and flying buttresses. Knowledge archive special: Who on earth are Real Goth FC? 2012-07-17T23:06:04Z It’s bristling with lego flying buttresses, lego gargoyles, lego battlements and lego towers, and it’s surrounded by defensive lego walls. Why the world has to ignore ReptileEvolution.com 2012-07-04T11:45:05.397Z Radiating round the chancel are chapels that give to the exterior view of the apse a truly French-Gothic air, flying buttresses supporting the cap of the capilla mayor. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z For us the flying buttress is aspiring, and the pointed arch is a fugue. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Let artists tell of its towers and finials, flying buttresses, gables, cornices, galleries, piers, fa�ades. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z The base consists of a lantern flanked by four pinnacles, to which it is connected by flying buttresses. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z The flying buttresses are especially graceful and the great dome is majestic in its proportions. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Descending a flying buttress that defended an angle of the building, Catesby, who was possessed of great strength and activity, was almost instantly upon the ground. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z They are of the same nature as the flying buttresses already spoken of. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z The tower sustained damage to its pinnacles and flying buttresses, illustrated in a series of pictures on the cathedral’s website. Washington Monument Shuttered After Earthquake Rocks Capital 2011-08-24T17:40:01Z At its base flying buttresses connect it with pinnacles at the corners of the tower. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z Cracks appeared in the flying buttresses around the apse at the cathedral's east end, the oldest part of the building. East Coast Rocked by Strongest Quake Since 1944 2011-08-24T13:52:00Z The building also sustained damage to its flying buttresses and smaller pinnacles, Weinberg said. Quake Rattles Washington Cathedral, Lampposts, Workers 2011-08-23T20:32:05Z The flying buttresses are also solid stone, and they help hold up the walls by bracing them. Quake damages Washington's National Cathedral 2011-08-23T20:14:15Z Nowhere have abutments and flying buttresses been so harmoniously employed as here. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z Much remains to delight the eye; flying buttresses, clerestory windows, corbels, capitals, and mouldings, some half buried in the rank grass and nettles. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Beyond rose the choir of the great cathedral, with its fretted pinnacles, and flying buttresses, and towering roof. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z One of the most general instances of this will be found in the form of the flying buttress in late Gothic. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Even its triple-tiered flying buttresses have so short a span as to entirely miss the decorating possibilities which we have a right to expect. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z The bombardments in the spring of the following year further damaged the gallery, also causing fresh mutilations to the flying buttresses and the pinnacles of the apse. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z I stood on a flying buttress on the greatest cathedral in the world. | Closer to Heaven 2010-08-05T15:33:00Z On the north is seen a fine bell-tower and lantern, connected by flying buttresses with octagonal turrets springing from the angles. Cathedral Cities of England At the end of the 12th century Chartres cathedral was begun, perhaps its most notable constructive feature being the high development that the flying buttresses have here attained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Chief among the charms of the cathedral’s exterior are the splendid five-portalled west front, and the lace-like garment of flying buttresses that gracefully hangs about its sides and east end. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z This apse is one of the earliest religious edifices in France, in which flying buttresses were employed. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z The forest of flying buttresses round many French cathedrals produces an almost bewildering effect, as, for instance, at the east end of Notre Dame;—our English specimens, at Westminster Abbey for example, are comparatively simple. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Once more in the darkness uprose the outlines of Notre Dame in all the beauty of Gothic refinement; all the delicate lacework and flying buttresses subdued and dreamlike under the night sky. Glories of Spain The abutting arches under the triforium roofs of the earlier churches were developed into flying buttresses above the roofs springing from buttresses of increased projection and weighted by pinnacles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The great apse is built upon the remains of the old Roman walls, which so elevates it above the neighbouring houses as to provide a clear view of the flying buttresses. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z But the glory of St. Philip and St. James' lay not in its height, it lay in the flying buttresses of which it had no less than eight, four on each side. East Angels Pinnacles were frequently added at the corners of the tower, and an arch, like that of a flying buttress, was sometimes thrown across from the pinnacle to the spire. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance The flying buttresses inside the structure give a peculiarly striking effect. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia Structurally also it possesses all the most characteristic features of the Gothic church, with nave arcades carried on compound piers, triforium and clerestory, vaulted throughout, and flying buttresses outside. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The latter’s fine Gothic choir, adorned with graceful flying buttresses, provides a strong contrast to its sturdier Romanesque nave. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z Crocketed pinnacles, connected by flying buttresses with the face of the spire, are arranged around the junction of the spire and tower, and the spire itself is boldly crocketed from base to apex. Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield The church is vaulted, as might be inferred from the forest of flying buttresses; and the vaulting displays some resemblance to our English fan-vaulting in general idea. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance The flying buttress, or Arc-boutant is carried across by an arch from one wall to another. p. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History It also dispenses with the necessity for flying buttresses, as the aisles, which are only half the width of the nave, carry the thrust of the vault direct to the external buttresses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" In a short time they entered a more normal forest of tall, white lauans over a hundred feet high, with strange roots like flying buttresses. The Pirates of Shan All the angles of buttresses, of windows, arches, splays, and pyramids,—those also crowning the bulky piers that meet the flying buttresses,—are characteristically and uniquely decorated with an ornamentation of balls. Cathedrals of Spain The vault was kept from spreading by the flying buttress, the thrust of the arcade was resisted by massive walls, and so on throughout. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance These windows peep forth from a forest of flying buttresses, and nowhere does the mixture of pinnacles and painted panes attain a more perfect eloquence than in the eastern extremity of the polygonal apse. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain There are no flying buttresses, the walls seemingly supporting themselves, and yet they are not clumsy. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine Mapfarity's castle—a tall rose-colored tower of flying buttresses—flashed in the rising sun. Rastignac the Devil The weight and thrusts, previously carried by walls, were met by a more and more skillfully developed framework of piers and flying buttresses. Cathedrals of Spain Thus the belfry grew into the enormous bell tower; the tower roof grew into the spire; the extra weight required on flying buttresses grew into the ornamental pinnacle; and the window head grew into tracery. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Neither windows nor flying buttresses are used in such profusion as in French cathedrals, and the height of the aisles is greater. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain The east end of the choir is highly enriched with flying buttresses, &c. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy Though less huge than Strasburg or Cologne, and lacking the doubled tier of flying buttresses of the latter, it is altogether the most splendid and well-proportioned Gothic mass extant. The Cathedrals of Northern France The sky is jagged by the crocketed spires which terminate the flying buttresses, the piers and the angles of the wall surface. Cathedrals of Spain This beautiful and remarkably slender spire rises three hundred and three feet, its lowest stage being an octagonal lantern supported by flying buttresses. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel The changements introduced into the new style tended to give it a more severe and defiant exterior appearance than in northern churches,—a scarcity of windows and flying buttresses, timidly pointed arches, and solid towers. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain The nave is supported by flying buttresses, each filled with tracery of eight mullions.—The tower at the south angle of the west front is lofty, and in the perpendicular style. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy He was a rash man who ranked the flying buttresses as a sign of defective construction, indicating structural weakness, meaningless and undecorative ornament, and what not. The Cathedrals of Northern France The mass of domes with supporting flying buttresses, ramps and finials above it, all remind one curiously of a transplanted and ecclesiasticized Chambord. Cathedrals of Spain Behind was all the fantastic wonder of the palace, the porticoes, slender carved columns, stone lacework of flying buttresses, spires, hollowed spaces of dark shade, points of sparkling light, broad surfaces of dazzling whiteness. The Island Mystery The octagon above has buttresses with ordinary pinnacles at each corner, a parapet like that below, and flying buttresses, all pierced, cusped and crocketed like those at the west front. Portuguese Architecture The play is, on the whole, accurate in its historical details, though the poet's imagination has added many a flying buttress to the structure. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning The choir, with its radiating chapels, is of a Romanesque order, with the Gothic 99attribute of the flying buttress in a high degree of development. The Cathedrals of Northern France In both these churches the thrust of the dome and its supporting arches is taken by the two-storied galleries, which form, in fact, flying buttresses within the buildings, and are adapted to their architectural requirements. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture In every view of Palma, it towers solidly above the houses and bastioned walls, and insists upon having the sky as a background for the light Gothic pinnacles of its flying buttresses. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Above the cornice, which is less elaborate than in the nave, was a short octagonal drum capped by a low spire, now replaced by a poor dome and flying buttresses. Portuguese Architecture East of the transept is the choir, with a clerestory of four lofty Perpendicular windows of four lights each, with a bold flying buttress between the windows. Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch To the artist's eye the gem of the building is undoubtedly the fine grouping and ensemble of the flying buttresses at the rear of the choir. The Cathedrals of Northern France It was at one time supported by a large double flying buttress, but the lower arch has fallen in. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture I ascended to the different levels by steps on the flying buttresses. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge The window with its mouldings is much narrower than the door, and is joined to the tall pinnacles which rise to the right and left of the great opening by Gothic flying buttresses. Portuguese Architecture Beside the cathedral, on the north, is a curious structure of the fourteenth or fifteenth century, which looks like an enormous flying buttress, with its support, sustaining the north tower. A Little Tour of France The choir itself widens out from the crossing of the transept, causing that deviation between the piers of nave and choir which made necessary the ungainly flying buttress of the north wall. The Cathedrals of Northern France There are, on the façade, some fine carvings of armed warriors; but the side walls are flat and plain, solid masonry replacing the flying buttresses which lighten most of the French churches. In Château Land The forest of pinnacles beneath our feet, mingled with a labyrinth of ornamented spires, statues, flying buttresses, and Gothic fretwork, piled all about the roof, is seen through a gauze-like veil of golden mist. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands These pinnacles and this crested parapet are found everywhere all round the church, though the pinnacles on the aisle walls from which the plain flying buttresses spring are quite different, being of a Manoelino design. Portuguese Architecture A narrow lane passes beside the high wall which conceals from sight the palace of the archbishop and beneath the flying buttresses, the far-projecting gargoyles, and the fine south porch of the church. A Little Tour of France The building is of Bath stone, and has flying buttresses and a high square tower. Chelsea The Fascination of London Gothic architecture offers us in the pinnacle and flying buttress a striking example of the adoption of a mechanical feature, and its transformation into an element of beauty. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory The exterior, with its immense flying buttresses and myriads of pinnacles, is truly awe-inspiring. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands It was poised upon two points of another ice mass and held upright by a flying buttress of wind-hardened snow. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America The development of the Gothic style was greatly forwarded by the invention of the "flying buttress." An Introduction to the History of Western Europe They terminate in the pinnacles of the flying buttresses that span the choir-aisle. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Passing towards the Whispering Gallery, the flying buttresses inserted to support the walls of the clerestory, which were weakened by the insertion of the great east window of the choir, 1347-1350, should be noticed. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See The wall of the choir aisle is supported by a flying buttress as well as by the small room in the corner between it and the south main transept. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See A future in which Nationality, triumphant in Italy and Germany, would bring about a Balance of Power far more solid than any which their flying buttresses could assure, was of course entirely hidden from them. William Pitt and the Great War It was possible to ascend as far as the flying buttresses, and to walk round a stone causeway that encircled the tower just where the spire tapered up. A harum-scarum schoolgirl The accident has been attributed to the removal, in the reign of Richard II, of the flying buttresses by which the vault was originally supported, as is still the case with the choir walls. Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See Back, the two looked on a magnificent series of flying buttresses of serrated granite, their bases guarding the river, their tops remotely supporting the heavens. Still Jim The triple lancets of the clerestory occur in pairs between flying buttresses with tall finials; below these, in the aisles, are two two-light windows, divided by lesser buttresses terminating in gables. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum One showed the exquisite sculpture on a flying buttress; another the carving of a choir-stall canopy; a third the figure-crowded façade of a western porch. Flamsted quarries This mammoth arch is more of a flying buttress spanning the canyon than a real bridge. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania The flying buttresses have been reproduced in the new nave, and the chief doorway placed in the south-west corner, which the architect was led to believe was its original position. Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See Then Prague assumes a severer aspect; reds and warm greys have vanished, castle, churches, palaces stand out in marked relief, their features accentuated by piled-up snow on roof and gallery and flying buttress. From a Terrace in Prague The aisle has flying buttresses reaching to the clerestory, and good angle-pinnacles. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum A flying buttress of very slight proportions will be seen on the north side between the north transept and the north porch. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire It was a city fantastic with cubed domes, spires, and aerial bridges and flying buttresses. The Street That Wasn't There That the old builders did not shrink from such daring alterations, however, is proved by their having removed the flying buttresses from the original nave, which led to the collapse of the roof in 1469. Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See Trinity Church is in a late decorative style, with ornamental pinnacles, flying buttresses, and two deeply-recessed porches. Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London The graceful flying buttresses, with their elegant pinnacles, are of this same date. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See A, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornamentation; B, a flying buttress. Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations Among the details, however, are two admirable flying buttresses. Highways and Byways in Sussex The south elevation exhibits seven bays, divided and supported by flying buttresses, each bay of the clerestory being lighted by a plain lancet window. Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See The highly-ornamented tower, the west front of the church, its unrivalled north porch, and the transept, with flying buttresses, pinnacles, and parapet, cannot fail to gratify every beholder. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Two flying buttresses rise from the corners of the nave and transept aisles to the corbel table of the clerestory range. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See The chapel has a square tower rising to a considerable height, and the roof is supported by flying buttresses. Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London As the choir never had a groined ceiling there was no necessity for flying buttresses, and their absence gives the clerestory a very monotonous flat effect. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See The flying buttresses had been removed from the old nave, with disastrous consequences to the original roof, as already stated. Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See The exterior is all flying buttresses, crocketed pinnacles, and sculpture. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland There are also eight elegant flying buttresses, one to each of the angles of the lantern. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See But she being narrowly built, on somewhat Gothic lines, and the gateway being broad, Somerled saw past the flying buttresses of her skirts into the background. The Heather-Moon Above and beyond this, supported between each bay by flying buttresses, comes the transitional Decorated to Perpendicular clerestory, considerably higher than the original Norman clerestory remaining to the nave. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See But thriftiness in small things often goes with an extravagant disposition, much as manifestations of piety often accompany wickedness like flying buttresses consciously placed outside the edifice. The Joyful Heart The church has no far-projecting buttresses to give light and shade, no flying buttresses or pinnacles like those that lend such a charm to most French and many English churches. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey There are no flying buttresses on the north side, and the pinnacles are much smaller. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See The Little Skellig, a fantastic rock, with a great arch like a flying buttress under which for centuries the seas have churned deep, is almost inaccessible. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway At the base of each flying buttress are figures of saints. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See There are no flying buttresses; they are self-sustaining. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Suppose Nôtre Dame or Milan Cathedral stripped of their double tiers of flying buttresses. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 These pinnacles appear to have been originally connected with the wall of the nave by flying buttresses, traces of which still exist, both on the walls and the pinnacles. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See They all project forward, having the upper story supported by a kind of flying buttress. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 This necessitated the addition as well of flying buttresses to take the thrust of the vault. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See Beyond, one traced the outlines of pinnacle and flying buttress, slanting roof and beautiful windows. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 Walk round it, and take your pleasure in subtleties of the builder's craft, quaint corners, gargoyles, and flying buttresses, but do not expect the thrill that answers the perception of sheer rightness of form. Art It is possible that a beginning only was made of these flying buttresses, and that when it was decided to place a wooden vault on the cathedral, they were discontinued as being unnecessary. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See The whole coast is honeycombed with caves and bays, with chapelles and arches and flying buttresses, among which are wonders such as you will find nowhere else in the world. Carette of Sark The battlementing to the presbytery also was added at the same time as the flying buttresses. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See We traced the outlines of flying buttresses, of heavier buttresses between the windows, of the beautiful apse. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 Some time later than the rest of the work, stately flying buttresses were added to strengthen the tower walls. Old St. Paul's Cathedral At any rate, there are no pinnacles to the aisle buttresses on the north side, and, consequently, no flying buttresses. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See All in a moment he saw too the flying buttress crook itself like an elbow and disappear. The King's Achievement On the 18th the cathedral was again hit on the southern flying buttresses and on the roof, killing a gendarme and several German wounded. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? I cannot take leave of the cathedral without commending, in strong terms of admiration, the lofty flying buttresses of the exterior of the nave. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One A hundred flying buttresses connect them with the mountain side. John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) Southern California; Grand Canon of the Colorado River; Yellowstone National Park On these buttresses and on the wall of the nave are the marks of flying buttresses which have been removed, as has been stated in the account of the north side of the nave. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See The distant flying buttresses of New York were supporting a shining sky, and north and east lay the harbour and sea, and many ships moving with the glad gait of home-comers after perilous voyaging. Living Alone The fire on the outside calcinated the greater part of the fa�ade, the north tower and the entire clerestory, with the flying buttresses and the turret crowning each of them. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? The choir is flanked by flying buttresses, which have a double tier of small arches, altogether "marvellous and curious to behold." A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One To be sure, they were extravagant enough, fantasies in which flying buttresses and flamboyant traceries waltzed around solid Norman and rigid Perpendicular, nightmares of undigested Parker. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Surely, it was based upon no philosophic taciturnity; he was nothing of an idealist; an aerial architect; a constructor of flying buttresses. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I The central column appears to continue through the roof, and is supported without by eight flying buttresses, which rest on the several corners of the building. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831 But there are no sub-arches to any of the flying buttresses, and the slopes of each are protected by lead coverings. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Spires!" answered the boy, "propped up by buttresses and flying buttresses and all the rest of it so as to keep them from falling. The Boy With the U.S. Census Nobly Gothic through all the shattering, the great church rose out of the wreckage, with flying buttresses still outspread like brooding wings to the dead houses that had sunk about her. Where the Sabots Clatter Again At present, it is only remarkable for the elegant tower and spire of its church, connected by flying buttresses of great beauty, the whole of rich and elaborate workmanship. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1 "No, I'm a flying buttress—I support it from the outside." Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations Though somewhat stiff and formal, the general design derives a certain impressiveness from the lofty clerestory, the immense display of windows, and a profusion of flying buttresses. Somerset From the centre of the roof carry up a square tower with battlemented parapets and pinnacles at all corners, and flying buttresses from the turrets of the main buildings. A Mere Accident And on the south and west the façades of the cathedral and flying buttresses and statues of kings, angels, and saints were mangled and shapeless. With the Allies It has no pinnacles, flying buttresses, side chapels, or subordinate supports. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts From each of the great tower pinnacles two ogee-shaped flying buttresses spring to the near angles of the octagon. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains It was with difficulty that she could even distinguish the flying buttresses, which were thrown like bridges into the empty space. The Dream But even after you have gone down the three flights of steps you are only at the entrance to the church, amidst marble pillars, flying buttresses, and pointed arches. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe On the floor lay broken carvings, pieces of stone from flying buttresses outside that had been hurled through the embrasures, tangled masses of leaden window-sashes, like twisted coils of barbed wire, and great brass candelabra. With the Allies The bole bears sharp, broad-based thorns; the wings or flying buttresses are larger; several trunks rarely anastomose; the branches seldom stand out horizontally, nor are the leaves disposed in distinct festoons. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I The apse is now encircled with a series of sacristies divided into five chambers and spanned by flying buttresses. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Gargoyles at the foot of the flying buttresses carried off the water from the roofs. The Dream It is of the fourteenth century, light, lantern-like, with glorious flying buttresses. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc "I beg your pardon, sir," he said—the Boy was all gravity in a moment—"but could you tell me what flying buttresses are." The Heavenly Twins There is a fine view from this position, but it is better still if one climbs the narrow staircase from the choir leading up to the asphalted walk beneath the flying buttresses. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 3 On the east side are two odd little flying buttresses, intended apparently to repeat the inclined surface of the other side. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains The elms in the Bishop's garden rustled with a long, billowy sound, and a loud voice seemed to clamour through the terraces and the flying buttresses of the Cathedral. The Dream Along the sides of the church there project a double row of thirsty-looking gargoyles—the upper ones having their shoulders supported by the mass of masonry supporting the flying buttresses. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 2 It was a bright moonlight night; the shadows were strong, and the details of the facade, flying buttress, gargoyle and cornice, with a glimpse of the apse and spire, were all distinct. The Heavenly Twins The choir is flanked by flying buttresses, which have a double tier of small arches, altogether "marvelous and curious to behold." Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 The nave is of moderate width and consists of only four bays, the eastern arches being narrower and made to abut against the tower after the manner of flying buttresses. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Then again, a little later on, how was it that she should find him up in the air among the flying buttresses of the nave and the pinnacles of the piers? The Dream He was on a flying buttress of the cliff, at his feet a floor of water, silvery-ruffled. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea It is a noble tower; and the jackdaws evidently have pleasant homes in their hereditary nests among its topmost windows, and live delightful lives, flitting and cawing about its pinnacles and flying buttresses. Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches Explain the following terms: scholasticism; canon law; alchemy; troubadours; Provençal language; transept; choir; flying buttress; werewolf; and mumming. Early European History The flying buttress over the south aisle restores a feature of the old building which had disappeared. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Beginning at the south, we find a range of three, facing eastward and separated from one another by flying buttresses of natural rock. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 On his right, some ten feet distant, a little table-land of grass projected from the face of the cliff—the green top of a flying buttress, as it were. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea It is a pretty structure, pointed Gothic in style, consciously reproduced with all the aids of flying buttresses, niches, pinnacles, and arches. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 Ribbed vaulting and the flying buttress are the distinctive features of Gothic architecture. Early European History Then would I salute the strangers courteously, and expatiate to their astonished minds upon crypts and chancels, and naves, arches, Gothic and Saxon architraves, mullions and flying buttresses. The Monastery This book does somewhat resemble a minster, in the Romanesque style, with pinnacles, and flying buttresses, and roofs, "Gargoyled with greyhounds, and with many lions Made of fine gold, with divers sundry dragons." Hyperion The matter of Gothic vaulting, with its two weak points, the flying buttress and the false, wooden shelter-roof, is the bete noire of the Beaux Arts. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres All at once, a hundred torches, the light of which glittered upon the helmets of men at arms, spread over the church at all heights, on the towers, on the galleries, on the flying buttresses. Notre-Dame De Paris Gothic architecture, with its pointed arches, flying buttresses, and traceried windows, never struck deep roots in Italy. Early European History At the very summit is built that wonderful church, the rich architecture and flying buttresses of which strike the eye leagues and leagues away, either on the sea or the mainland. Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners) A narrow lane passes beside the high wall which conceals from sight the palace of the archbishop, and beneath the flying buttresses, the far-projecting gargoyles, and the fine south porch of the church. A Little Tour in France Beside the cathedral, on the north, is a curious structure of the fourteenth or fifteenth century, which looks like an enormous flying buttress, with its sup- port, sustaining the north tower. A Little Tour in France |
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