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Definition of the day : « barrel vault »
- noun tunnel vault
- The church is covered by a barrel vault, the crossing of the transepts being crowned by a dome.
- Extract from : « Cathedral Cities of France » by Herbert Marshall
- The barrel vault (a half cylinder) was known to the Egyptians and Assyrians.
- Extract from : « How France Built Her Cathedrals » by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
- They were a variant of the barrel vault of the region preferred because less material was required.
- Extract from : « How France Built Her Cathedrals » by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
- The Corpus Domini has its own sculptured doorway, and three bays covered by a barrel vault carried on pointed arches.
- Extract from : « How France Built Her Cathedrals » by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
- The cathedral of Autun has a barrel vault undergirded by pointed arches.
- Extract from : « How France Built Her Cathedrals » by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
- Thomas did not believe that a barrel vault was used in these apartments; the span would have been too great.
- Extract from : « A History of Art in Chalda & Assyria, v. 1 » by Georges Perrot
- The central aisle has a barrel vault, and the side aisles quadripartite vaults.
- Extract from : « The Care of Books » by John Willis Clark
- The planks covered the barrel vault, which was called "Arches," situated beneath the roof.
- Extract from : « Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century » by Henry Chandlee Forman
- Most elaborate of all is the barrel vault, where each coffer is filled with round or square panels surrounded with strapwork.
- Extract from : « Portuguese Architecture » by Walter Crum Watson
- Over 200 feet long, it has a dome-surmounted transept in the middle, and a barrel vault divided into panels.
- Extract from : « Portuguese Architecture » by Walter Crum Watson