Fan vault
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FAN VAULT, in architecture, a method of vaulting used in the Perpendicular style, of which the earliest example is found in the cloisters of Gloucester cathedral, built towards the close of the 14th century.
Fan vault - A fan vault is a form of vault used in the Perpendicular Gothic style, in which the ribs are all of the same curve and spaced equidistantly, in a manner resembling a fan.
Fan vault - Bath Abbey ...
fan vault
A vault which consists of fan-shaped half cones which usually meet at the center of a vault.
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Fan vault: A concave conical vault whose ribs, of equal length and curvature, radiate from the springing (the point where an arch rises from its supports) like the ribs of a fan
Groin(ed) arch: One arched division of a cross vault ...
fan vault: the application of decorative cusped panels to solid semi-cones, as used in late Perpendicular churches.
Fan vault
- resembles a fan! Constructed in concave ribs of equal length, which spring from a central point. The ribs meet, or nearly meet at the apex or crown of the vault.
fan vaulting - an elaborate system of vaulting in which the ribs diverge like fans
tracery - decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs ...
Fan vaulting : An intricate form of Tracery in which the ribs of a Vault arch out in a concave fan pattern.
Fillet : Delicate adornment strips applied to shafts and archways along the moldings.
Finial : An ornamental capping piece placed atop spires.
A fan vault is a development of lierne vaulting characteristic of English Perpendicular Gothic, in which radiating ribs form a fan-like pattern.
Late Gothic Fan vaulting (1608, restored 1860s) over the nave at Bath Abbey, Bath, England Suppression of the triforium offers a great expanse of clerestory windows.
Fan Vault - Arched ceiling in which ribs radiate like a fan.
Fenestration - Windows and their arrangement in a building.
This motif of panel tracery is used also for wall decoration, and on the fan vaults that were used for the most prestigious buildings.PerronCentral stair to a doorway, usually of double-curved plan.
Final phase of Gothic architecture, characterised by large windows, flattened arches, impressive towers and fan vaulting c1350-1540.
Piscina
Recess with basin and drain for washing the sacred vessels.
Roman arch (weight was carried equally by both walls); 2) cross vault where two barrel vaults cross and are divided into four segments with weight-bearing ribs each supported by a pilaster. Where the ribs meet at the apex is a keystone; 3) fan ...
phase, in c14 to cl6, with straight vertical and horizontal elements, very flat arches, strong window transoms, mouldings framing doorways, blind fenestration panels, shallow mouldings, pale glass and complex vaulting including lieme or fan vaults.
A rib vault is similar to a groin vault but the vault surface (or webbing) is supported by diagonal ribs at the intersections of the compartments. Tierceron and lierne vaults are rib vaults with added decorative ribs. A fan vault was constructed of ...
The masterpiece of the style, the chapel of King's College (begun 1443), Cambridge, achieves a majestic homogeneity through the use of the new fan vaulting, ...
its intermediate ribs emphasizing the verticality of the composition and carrying out to completion in the roof the fine drawing of multiple piers and moulded arches, is swerving towards the unjustifiable type that came just before the fan vault, i.e.
 See also: Vault, Architecture, Masonry, Decorated, Ceiling
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