This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic ... Other questions plagued the cathedral overseers. Their building plans eschewed the flying buttresses and pointed arches ...

the Washington National Cathedral sits surrounded by gardens, creating a pleasant atmosphere for visitors. Take a stroll around the cathedral and peer at its high vaults and flying buttresses ...

As Cannon says of flying buttress, 'where practical necessity met aesthetic adventure came strange and fantastic beauty.' Splendid stuff. Wells Cathedral, Somerset Nikolaus Pevsner at Cartmel ...

Biden honored Carter at Washington National Cathedral, an English Gothic house of worship with flying buttresses, pinnacles and vaulted ceilings. Later today, Carter will be memorialized at the ...