Sentence examples for groin vault from inspiring English sources

But Durham Cathedral, with its Romanesque ribbed groin vault, remains by far the finest example of the Norman style.

Two disadvantages of the groin vault encouraged Gothic builders to develop a modification known as the rib vault.

The groin vault, however, requires great precision in stone cutting, an art that declined in the West with the fall of Rome.

In the narthex at Vézelay there was one groin vault that had ribs, and buttresses resembling flying buttresses were concealed under roofs of the galleries.

Roman architects discovered that two barrel vaults that intersected at right angles formed a groin vault, which, when repeated in series, could span rectangular areas of unlimited length.

First, to build a groin vault, a form must be made to pour or lay the entire vault, and this requires complex scaffolding from the ground up; second, the groin vault must be more or less square, and a single vault cannot span extended rectangular areas.

This massive hall of justice and commerce was covered by three groin vaults with three deeply coffered tunnel-vaulted bays on either side.

Much of the book is about their practical problems thrust lines, the catenary curve and groin vaulting.

In the ground floors of their monastery buildings the Cistercians early introduced the idea of using ribbed groin vaulting in repetitive square bays (a Gothic scheme).

Byzantine architects perfected a way of raising domes on piers instead of walls (like groin vaults), which permitted lighting and communication from four directions.

Romanesque churches characteristically incorporated semicircular arches for windows, doors, and arcades; barrel or groin vaults to support the roof of the nave; massive piers and walls, with few windows, to contain the outward thrust of the vaults; side aisles with galleries above them; a large tower over the crossing of nave and transept; and smaller towers at the church's western end.