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.
The cathedral is built of stone, without much variation in colour; it is vaulted throughout, and a forest of flying buttresses surrounds it on all sides.
The aisle windows have two lights; the clerestory has triple lancets, and each pair is flanked by flying buttresses.
It was evidently originally intended to connect them with the clerestory wall by flying buttresses to support a stone vaulted roof.
Hence these latter were made thick and pierced merely by lancet windows; with such walls there was no need of flying buttresses.
The exterior of Angers Cathedral was made equally simple, without radiating apse chapels or flying buttresses.
In its first plan were no flying buttresses, but they were soon added when it was found that the thrust of the upper vaulting was not sufficiently counterbutted.
Less regularity and a greater profusion of buttresses, and above all of flying buttresses, would have been more agreeable, but the times had changed and new tastes had entered the country.
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.
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 outer walls of the clerestory, and the pinnacles of the south side of the nave show vestiges of flying buttresses.
There are no flying buttresses on the north side, and the pinnacles are much smaller.
This is borne byflying buttresses of enormous solidity, composed of an upper and a lower section, which are strengthened in turn by an arcade.
Towards the close of the 13th century, probably, the walls of the nave, threatening to collapse under the vault, were supported by flying buttresses surmounted by heavy pinnacles.
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