[edit] West front
The west front is the most ornate part of the exterior with the processional doors, often three in number, and often richly decorated with sculpture, marble or stone tracery.
West Front Windows: Right lancet: Tree of Jesse; Center Lancet: Infancy of Christ; Left lancet: Passion of Christ; Rose: Second Coming
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West Front of the US Capitol Building in Washington DC
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The plan, however, is nobly developed, the general relations of height and breadth fine to a degree, while in the west front (1210-35) Gothic design reaches, perhaps, the highest point it ever achieved so far as classical simplicity, power, ...
In front of the early Christian basilicas was a long arcaded porch called "narthex" (q.v.) In later times porches assume two forms - one the projecting erection covering the entrance at the west front of cathedrals, ...
Officially the country is divided into five regions, the Northern Arras, the North-West Frontier, the Punjab, Baluchistan and Sind. Each region has its own languages and cultures reflecting a complex historical development.
The west front, on the other hand, was independently composed. The large parallelogram of the Gothic harmonic facade, surmounted by twin towers, ...
A tall structure generally set above the crossing of the church or the west front
Tracery -
Decorative open patterns in the stonework at the heads of Gothic windows, etc.
 See also: Cathedra, Cathedral, Arches, Architecture, Tower
  
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