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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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On this page you'll find 3 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to barrel vault, such as: barrel root, cradle vault, and wagon vault.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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