Flying Buttress (original) (raw)

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Masonry support consisting usually of a pier or buttress standing apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch to take the thrust of the vaulting

Commonly found in Gothic and Gothic Revival styles

Types of buttresses: Pier ... Flying ... Scroll ... Curved ... Triangular

See also: Church Vocabulary

Examples from Buffalo:

• Illustration above: St. Paul's Cathedral Possibly the only flying buttress in Buffalo
• St. Joseph's RC New Cathedral(DEMOLISHED 1978)

Other examples:

• Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris France
• St. Denis Abbey, suburb , Paris France
• Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France