A groin vault or groined vault (also sometimes known as a double barrel vault or cross vault) is produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel...
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panels. Rib vaults are, like groin vaults, formed from two or three intersecting barrel vaults; the ribs conceal the junction of the vaults. The earliest...
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was to create an intersection of two barrel vaults at right angles, thus forming a groin vault. Barrel vaults are known from the Ancient Iran (Elam), Indian...
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7th century. A groin vault is formed by the intersection of two or more barrel vaults, resulting in the formation of angles or groins along the lines...
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Romanesque architecture (section Groin vault)
arches and more massive forms. The development of vaults from barrel and groin vaults to ribbed vaults was the main structural innovation of this period...
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structure) Groin vault, a type of vaulted chamber in medieval architecture This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Groin. If an...
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that surrounds the vault is the union of the solid material surrounding the two barrel vaults. In this way it differs from a groin vault, which is also formed...
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project inward from the layer on which they rest. Cross vault – See Groin vault Cycloidal vault – A vault in which the diameter across the springline is equal...
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his memory was established in 1672 inside the south-eastern arcade. The vault of the Saint Basil Sanctuary serves as a reference point in evaluating the...
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a large nave ending in an apse with a groin vault, flanked by two smaller side-chapels also with groin vaults. The facade holds a lancet-arched main...
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