Question

Your friend Tatiana sees 3 barrel. Bolts intersect with a fancy edge created with piped masonry. While looking at examples of Gothic cathedrals in Europe, these structures appear to allow for windows to be placed higher in the structure. She wants to know what these structures are called what would you tell her

Flying buttresses
Apse vaults
Lancet arches
Ribbed vaults

Answer 1

I would tell her that these structures are called flying buttresses.