wheel-like flying buttresses. It was Friday, a special day in Chartres, we learned. The cathedral hummed, a hive of hushed activity. While moving from window to storied window - Noah's Ark riding ...

Her son was killed leaving Chartres, I suppose in a car crash ... One of his favorite demonstrations illustrates the principle of the flying buttress, the medieval structural innovation that ...

“If you go into Chartres, it drops you to your knees.” The cathedral is remarkable for its siting—rising like a mirage above the flat agricultural plains surrounding the town not far from Paris—and ...

Counterweight "flying buttresses" — stone arches ... arrive in just over an hour in Chartres, home of the cathedral that is arguably Europe's best example of pure Gothic. Officially known ...

Whatever Chartres ... the present Gothic cathedral, in that the only possible expansions were upward and the addition of a transept. The extra height was made possible with flying buttresses ...

Soon, Clancy was in Chartres, as were we ... rising far above the patinated copper roof. A squadron of flying buttresses flanks either side of the nave. The royal portal, the main entrance ...

Chartres is the one cathedral with real box-office appeal ... While it has all the standard Gothic features (pointed arches, flying buttresses, and so on), it also has an undeniably earthbound ...

Counterweight "flying ... spire of the cathedral finally appeared on the horizon. Nowadays you can hop on a train in Paris and, for example, arrive in just over an hour in Chartres, home of ...

In December, restorers began work on one of the famed flying buttresses that support the ... money for conservation work on the Chartres Cathedral since 2006. (A recent cleaning of the dark ...

Though visiting Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral won’t be possible for ... and counterweight “flying buttresses” — stone beams that stick out of the church and support the roof by pushing ...