Transverse arch: see T
Tunnel vault - see Barrel vault
Vaulting shaft - The vertical member leading to the springer of a vault.
transverse arch
Supporting arch which runs across the vault from side to side, dividing the bays. it usually projects down from the surface of the vault. Compare with transverse rib
transverse rib ...
transverse arch: an arch at right angles to the main body of a building.
travertine: an Italian cream-coloured limestone, which can be polished with good effect.
trefoil: having three foils or cusps.
Transverse arch
- the arch which separates one bay of a vault from another, often decorated.
Barrel Vault with transverse arches connected to attached half columns that extend down to compound piers.
St. Foi at Conques: mostly built between 1100 and 1130.
The vault of the Abbaye aux Dames may be considered either as a ribbed quadripartite vault of square plan, bisected and strengthened by a transverse arch with solid spandrels, or as a series of transverse arches, one on each pair of nave piers, ...
Characteristic features of Ilkhanid architecture are the massive size of monuments (which anticipates those of the Timurids), the extensive use of stucco work and the development of the transverse arch.
A transverse arch across the nave of a church partitioning the roof into sections. Image courtesy of Gretchen Ranger
Dipteral
Referring to a temple surrounded by a double range of columns. Image courtesy of Gayle Goudy Kochanski ...
Horizontal member separating window lights.Transverse archAn arch spanning a main axis (e.g. of a vaulted space).Transverse rib
A rib spanning between two walls to divide a rib-vault into bays.Tread ...
in a Gothic cathedral the transverse arches and adjacent piers of the arcade divide the building into bays, the design of which is an architectural unit repeated in each bay.
Illustration from St. Louis' RC ...
A subdivision of the interior space of a building. In Romanesque and Gothic churches, the transverse arches and piers of the arcade divide the building into bays.
curve which was given by the intersection of two semicircular barrel vaults, or cylinders, he employed the semicircular arch for the diagonal ribs; this, however, raised the centre of the square bay vaulted above the level of the transverse arches ...
Although many French churches such as-St Savin sur Gartempe (nave 1095-1115), St Sernin in Toulouse (c. 1080-1120), and in Sainte Foy in Conques (begun 1050)-had barrel-vaulted naves, St Philibert in Tournus (950-1120) had transverse arches to ...
Groin vaults are frequently separated by transverse arched ribs of low profile as at Santiago de Compostela. At La Madeleine, Vézelay, the ribs are square in section, strongly projecting and polychrome.[15] ...
Typical features of the Romanesque style are: simple pillars often alternating with composite pillars; cross or barrel vault ceilings; external pilaster strips and buttresses; bays separated by transverse arches supported by clustered columns.
transverse arch An arch that supports the main vault and connects the nave walls. tribune Raised section in the nave or transept of a church.
 See also: Transverse, Vault, Arches, Architecture, Gothic
  
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