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Winchester Cathedral: ceiling vaults
Ceiling vaults in Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England.
Detail of stucco decoration in a vaulted chamber of a subterranean basilica near Porta Maggiore, Rome, mid-1st century
The vaulted ceiling of Amiens Cathedral, France.
Vaulting with frescoes, oil on canvas by Juan Gersón, 1562; in the Franciscan church at Tecamachalco, Puebla, Mexico.
Four common types of vault. A barrel vault (also called a cradle vault, tunnel vault, or wagon vault) has a semicircular...
The area of a bay indicated in a reconstruction of a Gothic vault, from
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