Sentence examples for fan vault from inspiring English sources
Its characteristic feature is the fan vault, which seems to have begun as an interesting extension of the Rayonnant idea in the cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral (begun 1337), where tracery panels were inserted into the vault.
The choir and transepts have a fan vault by Robert and William Vertue.
The choir and transepts have a fan vault by Robert and William Vertue, in the 1860s, completing the original roof from 1608.
He built the fan vault of the south porch, renewed the wooden vault of the choir and added a great many decorative features to the interior.
It is famous for the Norman crypt with sculptured capitals, the east end of 1175 84 by William of Sens, the 12th- and 13th-century stained glass, the "supremely beautiful" Perpendicular nave of 1379 1405 by Henry Yevele, the fan vault of the tower of 1505 by John Wastell, the tomb of the Black Prince and the site of the murder of St. Thomas Becket.
Fan vaults, springing from slender columns or pendants, became popular.
In the 14th century, bosses comprising a series of narrative scenes appeared, and in the 15th century, fan vaulting was developed with long, pendantlike bosses.
Beautifully assembled in timber, it depicts the two toadstools rising from their slender stalks to form a majestic pair of fan vaults above the Thames.
While parishioners stifle sneezes beneath the late-gothic fan vaulting, O Holy Night and We Three Kings are sung by voices sweeter than stuffed dates.
The typical Gothic pointed vaults were replaced by fan vaults (fan-shaped clusters of tracery-like ribs springing from slender columns or from pendant knobs at the centre of the ceiling).
When Henry VII demolished the old Lady Chapel of Westminster Abbey in 1502, he replaced it with something more extravagantly gothic, with pointed arches, pendant fan vaulting and a plethora of crockets.
