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barrel vault

noun as in tunnel vault

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Forty-eight columns with Byzantine and Greek capitals support the brick barrel vault of the nave.

The height of the interior, from the floor to the centre of the barrel-vault of the nave, is a little over seventy feet.

The nave of the church has a pointed barrel vault, and the aisles half-barrel vaults, but all the cross arches are semi-circular.

Sometimes the ceilings were horizontal, sometimes canted on two sides, and sometimes they take the form of a barrel-vault.

They were a variant of the barrel vault of the region preferred because less material was required.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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