barrel vault

A simple continuous vault, typically semicircular in cross section. Also called tunnel vault, wagon vault.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

barrel vault

(Architecture) architect a vault in the form of a half cylinder. Also called: wagon vault or tunnel vault

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

bar′rel vault`

a vault having the form of a very deep arch. Also called bar′rel roof`.

[1840–50]

bar′rel-vault`ed, adj.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

barrel vault - the simplest form of vault; a single continuous arch

vault - an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof

Translations

Tonnengewölbe

Mentioned in

References in periodicals archive

The Barrel Vault, in St Pancras Station was built last autumn in line with celebrations of the station's 150th year.

We visited London's newest Wetherspoons in St Pancras station and it was pretty slick; Spoons in railway stations are the best kinds of Spoons

Founded in 1935, Wasco's commercial product line includes fully customizable metal-framed skylight systems, energy-efficient Lumira Aerogel insulated skylights, barrel vault skylights and multilayer polycarbonate skylights.

Velux Acquires Skylight Maker Wasco Products

In this research, a barrel vault scissor structure shape is chosen because it can be composed of polar and translational units and has therefore a straightforward design and high compactness in its undeployed state (Figure 1).

An Automated Structural Optimisation Methodology for Scissor Structures Using a Genetic Algorithm

It will include the refurbishment of the existing barrel vault roof and the renewal of roof and gable glazing.

Essential Swansea Market work moves closer

In the Barrel Vault gallery, the exhibition was introduced by the Today series, also known as the Date Paintings, begun in January 1966.

On Kawara

A barrel vault with exposed steel struccure lends a workshop character to the large drafting studio on the upper floor, Walk-on glass skylights set flush in the floor of the puplic forecourt let daylight into the garage underneath.

Gmp HQ, Hamburg, Germany

Under the proposals, the existing arcade would be re-paved and the barrel vault above would be refurbished and re-clad.

North City News: Makeover for shops centre; ERDINGTON

Just for fun, Hale capped the north end of one building with a playful barrel vault; it helps soften the transition between the four-story building and the smaller, more articulated buildings across the street.

Alabama Street Lofts

Already being compared with the Sistine Chapel, the work uses the glowing beetle carapaces to create an enormous mosaic that covers the barrel vault and the ceiling niches of the 19th-century Hall of Mirrors.

At the invitation of the king and queen of Belgium, artist Jan Fabre has decorated the principal hall at the Royal Palace with the wing cases of almost one million Asian jewel beetles. (Brussels, Belgium)

(The visitor could enter through an opening cut in the slab.) Labirinto per una sfera (Labyrinth for a sphere), 2001, was a mental space--a metaphor represented by a series of iron girders placed diagonally, touching the brick barrel vault, almost as if to prop it up.

Eliseo Mattiacci: Mercati Di Traiano. (Rome)