ANGLE BUTTRESSES: a pair of buttresses meeting at 90° to each other at a corner of a building. APSE: a semicircular or semi-polygonal end to a chancel or chapel. ARCADE: a row of arches in the same plane.
In the château of Meillant (1503) the chimney shafts are decorated with angle buttresses, niches and canopies, in the late Flamboyant style; and at Chambord and Blois they are carved with pilasters and niches with panelling above, ...
Angle buttress: set at 90 degrees at the angle of a building. Clasping buttress: one which encases the angle. Diagonal buttress: set diagonally to the angle.
 See also: Buttress, Brick, Church, Architecture, Roman
  
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