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3 unusual facts about Flying buttress


Flying buttress

AD 1320–1335 (Bibliothèque nationale)

An example is found at Chaddesley Corbett, where the wall of the south aisle of the parish church is leaning outwards.

Harlaxton

The church has an early 14th-century tower with clasping flying buttresses to the lower stages and angled buttresses above.


William P. Anderson

Among the more important works may be mentioned the Colchester Reef lighthouse (1885) on a caisson in Lake Erie, the construction and installation in 1898 of the first-order fog siren station on Belle Isle (Newfoundland and Labrador), and the nine flying buttress lighthouses at Pointe-au-Pere, Escarpement Bagot, Estevan Point, Michipicoten Island, Caribou Island, Belle Isle Northeast, Cape Bauld, Cape Norman, and Cape Anguille.


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