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Gothic rib vault ceiling of the Saint-Séverin church in Paris Interior elevation view of a Gothic cathedral, with rib-vaulted roof highlighted. In architecture, a vault (French voûte, from Italian volta) is a self-supporting arched form, usually of stone or brick, serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof.
This style of vaulted ceiling is known as a cathedral ceiling. “Cathedral ceilings normally mirror the roof structure and have sides that slope and meet at a ridge in the center,” says Maggie ...
One of Australia's largest churches and the third tallest after St Patrick's Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral. 75 metres (246 ft) long and has a ceiling height of 24 metres (79 ft). The main spire is 87 metres (285 ft) high. [citation needed] Basilica of St. John the Baptist: 2,135 [citation needed] 64,040 [100] 1839–1855 St. John's Canada
Amiens Cathedral: 42.3 m (139 ft) [13] Amiens: France: 13 Seville Cathedral: 42 m (138 ft) [14] Seville: Spain: Ranked as largest medieval Gothic church 14 Metz Cathedral: 41.41 m (135.9 ft) Metz: France: Largest glass surface 15 St Bartholomew's Church: 41.15 m (135.0 ft) [15] Brighton: United Kingdom: Highest nave in the UK, not vaulted ...
Thus, unlike gothic vaults derived from pointed arches, the fan vault is composed of semicircular conoids. The earliest example of fan vaulting is in the cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral. The King's College Chapel, Cambridge, has the world's largest fan-vaulted ceiling. [citation needed]
Both Roman basilicas and Roman bath houses had at their core a large vaulted building with a high roof, braced on either side by a series of lower chambers or a wide arcade passage. An important feature of the Roman basilica was that at either end it had a projecting exedra, or apse, a semicircular space roofed with a half-dome. This was where ...
The nave was 122 meters long and the vaulted ceiling was 35 meters high, twelve meters higher than Laon Cathedral. It used the older six-part rib vault in the ceiling, but replaced the alternating pillars and columns of earlier cathedrals with a single type of pillar, creating greater harmony.
In the Decorated architecture period, additional ribs were added to the vaulted ceilings which were purely decorative. They created very elaborate star patterns and other geometric designs. Gloucester Cathedral and Ely Cathedral have notable lierne vaults from this period [20] The buttress became more common in this period, as at Lichfield ...