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  2. Rib vault - Wikipedia

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    A rib vault or ribbed vault is an architectural feature for covering a wide space, such as a church nave, composed of a framework of crossed or diagonal arched ribs. Variations were used in Roman architecture , Byzantine architecture , Islamic architecture , Romanesque architecture , and especially Gothic architecture .

  3. Vault (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Gothic rib vault ceiling of the Saint-Séverin church in Paris Interior elevation view of a Gothic cathedral, with rib-vaulted roof highlighted. In architecture, a vault (French voûte, from Italian volta) is a self-supporting arched form, usually of stone or brick, serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof.

  4. Pointed arch - Wikipedia

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    The rib vault quickly replaced the Romanesque barrel vault in the construction of cathedrals, palaces, and other large structures. In a barrel vault, the round arch over the nave pressed down directly onto the walls, which had to be very thick, with few windows, to support the weight. In the rib vault, the thin stone ribs of the pointed arches ...

  5. List of architectural vaults - Wikipedia

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    Rear vault – A of the internal hood of a doorway or window to which a splay has been given on the reveal, sometimes the vaulting surface is terminated by a small rib known as the scoinson rib, and a further development is given by angle shafts carrying this rib, known as scoinson shafts. Rib vault – A rib vault is any vault reinforced by ...

  6. English Gothic architecture - Wikipedia

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    The most distinctive element of this period was the pointed arch, (also known as the lancet arch, which was the key feature of the Gothic rib vault, The original purpose of rib vault was to allow a heavier stone ceiling, to replace the wooden roofs of the earlier Norman churches, which frequently caught fire. They also had the benefit of ...

  7. Plantagenet style - Wikipedia

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    Angers Cathedral, incepted in 1148, has a footplan similar to the domed buildings of Angoulême, Périgueux and Fontevrauld, but rib vaults instead of the domes. For hall churches, the application of domical rib vaults instead of barrel vaults provided an aesthetic improvement, this way the halls became as transparent in transversal direction ...

  8. Romanesque architecture - Wikipedia

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    In ribbed vaults, not only are there ribs spanning the vaulted area transversely, but each vaulted bay has diagonal ribs, following the same course as the groins in a groin vault. However, whereas in a groin vault, the vault itself is the structural member, in a ribbed vault, it is the ribs that are the structural members, and the spaces ...

  9. Sexpartite vault - Wikipedia

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    Sexpartite vaulting, Lyon Cathedral In architecture, a sexpartite vault is a rib vault divided into six bays by two diagonal ribs and three transverse ribs. [1]The principal examples are those in the Abbaye-aux-Hommes and Abbaye-aux-Dames at Caen (which were probably the earliest examples of a construction now looked upon as transitional), Notre-Dame de Paris, and the cathedrals of Bourges ...