Arches

        During these periods when they already had roman arches they later thought of making the churches bigger and have more room for "God" in them so they figured out a way to make them bigger even though they had an idea on how to make them bigger; the Gothic arches were specifically designed to hold a larger scale building because if they had continued using the roman arches the build could of soon collapsed as  it was created because of the weight of the building.
         Even though they had roman arches it would not be enough to support the project of expanding the cathedrals and then supporting the addition of weight that would come after the increase in size of the building. The pointed arches that were used in the new churches were exactly the reason why they can build them so large, because it can support the weight that the roman arches can not and therefore the reason why they were not used for the new designs of the cathedrals.


Devon
"Gothic arch"