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Vaulting shaft - The vertical member leading to the springer of a vault.
Velarium - An awing hung over a courtyard or, in ancient Rome, over an amphitheatre ...
Vaulting: A curved, self supporting wall or ceiling that covers a space between two walls and rests on pillars. Romanesque antecedents of the Gothic ribbed vault are the barrel vault and the groined vault.
RIBBED VAULTING Stone or brick vaulting typically used for roofing and comprising a thin, light layer supported by a framework of arched ribs.
Vault, vaulting
a roof or ceiling of masonry constructed on the arch principle; see also barrel vault, groin vault, quadrant vaulting, ribbed vault.
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The vaulting, two-story gallery was lavishly decorated with door ornaments and carvings. The floors and walls were faced with colored marble. Low Ionian pillars supported reading tables.
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.
Rib vaulting
arched roof with ribs of raised moulding at the groins
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Gothic vaulting is nothing but an application of the principle of balance to the roof. The ribs of the vault, balanced the one against the other, and not the material between, are the real roof.
fan tracery vaulting - a system of ceiling vaulting with all ribs having the same curve, resembling the folds of a fan.
finial - the top or finishing stone of a pinnacle.
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Imitation fan-vaulting in the Gothick Long Gallery at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill ...
Ribbed/arched Vaulting- Vaulting that crowns in a pointed arch and has stone tracery among the seams of the intersections of the vaults. (Beauvais)
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FIG. 18. - FAN VAULTING. King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
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Method of vaulting area between two walls, columns or piers.
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Islamic architecture is characterized by arches which are employed in all types of buildings from houses to mosques.
Exeter Cathedral vaulting
The final flourishing of Gothic in Britain was the Perpendicular period (1375-1530+). The name suggests its chief characteristic - strong vertical lines in window tracery and wall paneling.
Bay: Internal division of building marked by roof principals or vaulting piers; A unit of interior space in a building, marked off by architectural divisions.
Although the change was a response to a growing rationalism in Christian theology, it was also the result of technical developments in vaulting.
gothic general term for a style of architecture and ornament prevalent between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, considered old-fashioned in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, characterized by pointed arches, ribbed vaulting, ...
The last step in the working-out of the Gothic vaulting plan remained to be taken - the substitution of oblong for square vaulting areas.
Romanesque A style developed in western and southern Europe after 1000 characterized by heavy masonry and the use of the round arch, barrel and groin vaults, narrow openings, and the vaulting rib, the vaulting shaft, ...
The real basis of Gothic architecture, and that which differentiates it from the heavier Romanesque style, is its elaborate and highly scientific system of vaulting and buttressing, made possible by the presence of the pointed arch.
Rib Vault - Cross vaulting in which rib cross on the diagonal.
Ridge - The horizontal line of a roof top.
Road / Street Line - The line defining the said limits of a street.
In France, during the first half of the 12th century, Gothic rib vaulting appeared sporadically in a number of churches.
This is an Arabic word ("mukarnas" in modern Turkish) for a form of vaulting. It is the geometric subdivision of a squinch, or cupola, or corbel, into a large number of miniature squinches, producing a sort of cellular structure.
It is associated especially with the expansion of monasticism and the building of large stone churches, and is characterized by massive masonry, round-headed arches and vaulting inspired by ancient Roman precedent, ...
A type of ornamental vaulting rib.
Tithe
A tax of 10 per cent of all income which was given to the parish church to support the priest and the work of the church.
The voussoir at the top of an arch; in vaulting it occurs at the intersection of the ribs of a rib vault. It is important structurally since it marks the apex of the vault. See also voussoir, rib vault, boss
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A fan vault is a development of lierne vaulting characteristic of English Perpendicular Gothic, in which radiating ribs form a fan-like pattern.
Formwork - Temporary wood structures used in constructing the ribbing and vaulting. Also known as centering.
Foundation - The stonework below the ground that supports the entire structure.
The apse as a semicircular projection (which may be polygonal on the exterior, or reveal the radiating projections of chapels) may be roofed with a half-dome or with radiating vaulting.
mass of monuments into tidy stylistic sequences The new architectural forms associated with "Gothic" brought a paradigm shift in architectural practice in the mid-twelfth century as exposed supports (flying buttress) and light-weight ribbed vaulting ...
Ribbed vault. A form of cross vaulting in which the weight of the segments is evenly distributed over raised stone ribs.
QUADRIPARTITE
a four-part vault
SEXPARTITE
a six-part vault
TIERCERON
a vaulting rib starting from the intersection of two vaults ...
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.
Vault of the internal hood of a doorway or window to which a splay has been given on the reveal, sometimes the vaulting surface is terminated by a sm...
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Decorated (Gothic) - second English Medieval phase from late c13 to 1450. With multiple lancets pointed windows, ogee or s-curve tracery, complex vaulting, large clerestories and inscribed decoration.
In vaulting it occurs at the intersection of the ribs of a ribbed vault. Latin Cross Plan Church floor plan with one arm longer than the other three. lavatorium A room or building in a monastery where monks washed before meals.
When a roof is described by exterior shape, it implies a plain interior. Open timber roofs evolved from the early use of crucks to encompass superb design and construction as spectacular as the best vaulting.
On the other hand, the tall attenuated piers of the ground-story arcade, the pencil-thin vaulting shafts rising through the clerestory to the springing of the ribs, ...
 See also: Vault, Architecture, Gothic, Roman, Ornament
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