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groined vault - two barrel vaults intersecting at right angles

vault - an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof

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More significant is the Breakfast Room, for it contains the earliest of Soane's starfish ceiling vaults, a very personalised development of the conventional groined vault that Soane used in several of his Bank of England interiors after 1788, notably in the Bank Stock Office of 1792 and in country houses such as Bentley Priory, Middlesex in 1798 and in Tyringham Hall, Buckinghamshire in 1793-1800.

The Breakfast Room

Instead of Grosch's low, groined vaults, the lightweight concrete roof of the pavilion is carried on four columns and hovers over the space like a Soanian shallow dome.

Conversing with the past: in what are likely to be his last architectural works, Norwegian master Sverre Fehn adds to Oslo's physical and cultural history in two projects that engage in different ways with existing buildings. Peter Davey analyses the remodelling and extension of Norway's National Museum of Art, Architecture & Design and refurbished office for publisher Gyldendal

those groined vaults, those arcades, those cataracts

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