fan vaulting

Another major development of this period was fan vaulting.

It had lots of straight upward lines and fan vaulting.

This included the installation of fan vaulting in the nave.

The Campbell fired into the air, taking a chip out of the magnificent fan vaulting.

There's a shot without voice-over where the camera pans slowly down the fan vaulting - magic!

Notably, this ceiling was also the first to combine pendants with fan vaulting.

The nave's wonderful fan vaulting was erected in the 19th century.

The ceilings are decorated with elaborate plaster fan vaulting.

Soon he could see the roof of the temple, an incredible maze of fan vaulting.

The abbey is a Grade I listed building, particularly noted for its fan vaulting.

Ornate stone ceilings, using so-called fan vaulting, made for huge unsupported spaces.

And he found Him, infinitely, in the fanned vaulting of King's Chapel.

English fan vaulting is the only comparable style and that is dreary copy book by comparison.

There is a theory that medieval pillars and fan vaulting had some connection with the appearance of an avenue of trees.

The splendour of the fourteenth century fan vaulting soaring elegantly, anciently, above him had made no comment.

Fan Vaulting: A Study of Form, Technology and Meaning.

Inside the house, the entrance lobby has decorative plasterwork in Adam style including roundels, fan vaulting and an oval ceiling.

Slender columns support the fan vaulting of the ceiling, which is particularly elaborate above the altar, incorporating sixteen stained glass windows in a half-dome.

Sherborne Abbey, one of the county's largest, is noted for its broad fan vaulting added during an extensive 15th century rebuild.

The work included the installation of fan vaulting in the nave, which was not merely a fanciful aesthetic addition but a completion of the original design.

The gate house has a Perp portal and canted Gothic oriel windows, with fan vaulting in the entrance.

After 1439 this chapel was replaced with a new Perpendicular Gothic style chapel, which has fine fan vaulting of unusually high quality for a parish church.

The fan vaulting above is contemporary with tower, and may have been designed by William Swayne, a master mason of King's College Chapel.

The fan vaulting provides structural stability by distributing the weight of the roof down ribs that transfer the force into the supporting columns via the flying buttresses.

Using natural light, the photographer records masses of coiled and interlaced braids as if they were architecture and, indeed, some are as intricate as Gothic fan vaulting.