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wagon vault

wagon vault

noun

  1. another name for barrel vault
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of wagon vault1

First recorded in 1825–35
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Example Sentences

In front of the apses is a solea with a wagon vault, except in front of the small aisle apse, where it is quadripartite.

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The roof is a wagon vault pierced with cross-vaults, but not truly quadripartite, and the caps a curious combination of badly cut foliage and scrolls and round-arched arcading.

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They return across the ends of the aisles, in each of which is an altar beneath a wagon vault, though there is no apse.

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There is, however, nothing to be seen authorising so early a date; the smaller of the two churches may perhaps date from the thirteenth century, since it has a pointed wagon vault and transverse ribs without mouldings.

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The building has a wagon vault of three courses, carved with cofferings and rosettes above a magnificent cornice.

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