Editing Gothic architecture (section)

===Rayonnant Gothic architectural elements, 1230–1350===

* Cathedrals increasingly tall in relation to width, facilitated by the development of complex systems of buttressing
* Quadripartite vaults over a single bay
* Vaults in France maintained simple forms but elsewhere the patterns of ribs became more elaborate.
* Emphasis on the appearance of high internally.
* Abandonment of fourth stage, either the deep triforium gallery or the shallow tribune gallery, in the internal elevation.
* Columns of classical proportion disappear in favour of increasingly tall columns surrounded by clusters of shafts.
* Complex shafted piers
* Large windows divided by mullions into several lights (vertical panels) with geometric tracery in the arch
* Large rose windows in geometric or radiating designs