ribbed vault

(rĭbd)

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Noun

ribbed vault - vault that resembles a groined vault but has ribbed arches

vault - an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof

Translations

křížová klenba

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Or, to be more precise, its ribbed vault. If you're not sure what a ribbed vault - or even the nave - is then rest assured: you don't need to know anything about architecture to admire it.

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Inside, the tall spaces were cut up by partitions and covered in drab paint, but what remained impressive, amazing, was the grand staircase--still with its original carpet as well as the painted decoration--rising and dividing under a glorious ribbed vault. All this was to be reduced to rubble under the plan to replace both 19th-century termini by a new station--like the miserable rebuilt Euston up the road.

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Freed from the geometry of a ribbed vault, the fan vault was able to take on the decoration of the time, particularly designs based on the ogee curve and what medieval historian John Harvey named reticulated tracery: each block of the rotated arched surface being cut to receive the dendritic patterns associated with nature.

Architect Peter Salter records the English innovation of the fan vault, a pragmatic and romantic alternative to the Gothic arch that has challenged his thoughts on contemporary skins

Still, Eidlitz's Assembly chamber, which was brilliantly polychromed and covered by an enormous ribbed vault that soared more than fifty-five feet overhead, was widely admired when it opened in 1879.

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The interior consists of a single hall with two groin vaulted bays and a polygonal apse with a ribbed vault over it (Fig.

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The same is true for the horizontal loom with treadle and the spinning wheel; stone castlery and the combining of pointed arch, ribbed vault, and flying buttress into Gothic structures; the gunpowder cannon; ships with added masts, sails, and a mariner's compass; presses, papers, and inks variously employed; and the mechanical clock, the appearance of which may "in the advance of Europe to the forefront of world technology [be viewed as] a decisive moment" (210).

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