Quadripartite rib-vaultA vault with two pairs of diagonal ribs dividing each bay into four triangular compartments or cells.QuarriesSquare (or diamond) panes of glass supported by lead strips (cames); square floor slabs or tiles.
quadripartite rib vault
A rib vault which is divided into four sections by two diagonal ribs. See also rib vault
quatrefoil ...
QUADRIPARTITE
a four-part vault
SEXPARTITE
a six-part vault
TIERCERON
a vaulting rib starting from the intersection of two vaults ...
quadripartite vault: vault in which each bay contains four cells, divided by groins or ribs.
quattrocento, cinquecento: 15th-century, 16th-century.
Quadripartite vault : A four sectioned vault, divided by diagonal, transverse ribs.
Relieving arch : A supportive arch constructed within a wall to absorb weight upon a passageway or portal below.
Other types of vaults: net vault, barrel, groin, quadripartite, sexpartite Fascine: Huge bundle of brushwood for revetting ramparts or filling in ditches.
of the latter, together with that of the five other similarly vaulted Norman churches and of the choir of St-Denis at Paris, has always been an architectural puzzle, since it is manifestly a stage in the development of the oblong quadripartite vault, ...
Side elevations for Early Gothic was mostly quadripartite elevation, with four stories of windows and levels, labeled the nave arcade, gallery, triforium, and clerestory.
Nave Vault of Chartres: Quadripartite Rib Vaults.
Nave elevation of Chartres: nave arcade, triforium, and clerestory. Note how the clerestory windows begin below the springing of the vault.
Flying Buttresses from the north side of Chartres Cathedral.
The main points of Early English are: quadripartite ribbing in vaults, slender towers topped with spires, lancet windows - both single and grouped - and piers with narrow, clustered shafts.
The intermediate rib, however, had the disadvantage of partially obscuring one side of the clerestory windows, and it threw unequal weights on the alternate piers, so that in the cathedral of Soissons (1205) a quadripartite (fig. 8) or FIG. 8.
 See also: Architecture, Vault, Masonry, Ornament, Church
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