For Flying Buttress we have terms and definitions in 4 topics. The topics are Architecture, Cathedrals and Castles, Scottish Architecture and Tudor, Architecture.

Flying Buttress (Architecture)

A detached pier supporting the weight of a wall.

Flying Buttress (Cathedrals and Castles)

A free-standing buttress linked to a church wall by an arch or part of an arch that serves to transmit the outward thrust of the wall to the buttress.

Flying Buttress (Scottish Architecture)

Arch or half arch which carries the thrust of a vault or roof from the upper part of a wall to an outer support or buttress

Flying Buttress (Tudor, Architecture)

Typically consists of an inclined member carried on an arch or a series of arches and a solid buttress to which it transmits lateral thrust.

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