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by anoncake
2582 days ago
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> Besides that, the flying buttresses were not an original feature of the cathedral. Do you have a source for that? I thought a gothic cathedral without flying buttresses was like a skyskraper without a steel skeleton. The load-bearing structure isn't generally added to a building after the fact. |
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> After construction had begun, flying buttresses were added to the design of the cathedral.
IIRC, they also upgraded the first set with sturdier ones in the 14th Century.