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barrel vault

NOUN
  1. the simplest form of vault; a single continuous arch

How To Use barrel vault In A Sentence

  • Churches on this pattern have barrel vaults and particularly fine nave porches with narthex in front.
  • The Romanesque is of Transitional type, with wide pointed arches and barrel vault, a clerestory but no triforium.
  • Churches on this pattern have barrel vaults and particularly fine nave porches with narthex in front.
  • In the Doric frieze above, six of the roundels decorating the metopes display figural reliefs that are very hard to decipher in the gloom into which the door is plunged by the barrel vault above.
  • In the Doric frieze above, six of the roundels decorating the metopes display figural reliefs that are very hard to decipher in the gloom into which the door is plunged by the barrel vault above.
  • The scriptwork, calligraphy and artwork are nothing short of magical and there is a further treat for bookish types as you get to wander through the barrel vaulted Long Room Library as well.
  • It has a fine room with a barrel vault.
  • The other four domes are supported in a like manner and short barrel vaults connect one dome to another.
  • Adjoining the S transept is the slype, a long narrow passage that was formerly covered by a barrel vault.
  • Later, the arches were elongated into barrel vaults, intersections became groin vaults and finally, by rotating the arch 360 degrees, the dome was formed - but not without some difficulty. The cupola: Spain's gift to Mexico's colonial architecture
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