A bespoke design by Fabric Architecture, the roof is a 30 m structure incorporating five barrel vault forms.
Vault particles are probably missing from plants, have not been found in insects and although traces of MVP monomer sequences appear in some fungi, they fall short of having vault forming capability using our criteria (not shown).
TEP1 is ubiquitous but vaults form without it and without vtRNA.
Each one was entirely vaulted, typically, with barrel vaults over the nave, quadrant vaults (four-part vaults, formed by two intersecting arches) over the galleries, and groin-vaulted aisles.
The Tudor pointed arch is common, and in interior work there is considerable simple Tudor paneling and an occasional use of Perpendicular vaulting forms.
The big picture questions are these: are vaults ancestral, having been retained in some species, but fallen into disrepair or lost beyond all recognition in others, or alternatively have they been comprised parts that had other functions and have come together in a fairly remote eukaryote and vaults formed thereafter?
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.
Here William introduced sexpartite vaulting, the form of the high arcades, and columns of stone in contrasting colours.
A profusion of pinnacles, gables, and other details such as subsidiary ribs in the vaults to form star patterns further complicated the total effect.
