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These are some words and terms that we found to be difficult or challenging in our research:
| Buttress | a projecting support of stone or brick built against a wall |
| Crocket | a small carved ornament, typically a bud or a curled leaf, on the inclined side of pinnacle or gabe |
| Capitals | the broader section at the head of a pillar or column |
| Trefoiled | an ornamental design of three rounded lobes like a clover leaf, used typically in architectural tracery |
| Sepulchres | a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried |
| Tympanum | a vertical recessed triangular space forming the center of a pediment, typically decorated |
| Tribune | a raised area or gallery with seats, especially in a church |
| Rayonnant | (in Gothic art and architecture) an architectural style that evolved in the Paris region during the reign of Louis IX (1226-1270) |
| Liturgical | of or related to liturgy or public worship |
| Arcades | a series of arches supporting a wall, or set along it |
| Mensa | the flat stone forming the top of an altar iin a Roman Catholic church |