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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

structure) Groin vault, a type of vaulted chamber in medieval architecture This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Groin. If an...

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...

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...

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...

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...