The walls were lined in fluted, narrow pilasters reaching to a barrel-vault ceiling. ❋ Curtis Hox (2011)
The plastered interior has a barrel-vault ceiling of pine planks and a floor paved with a gray sandstone from Ohio. ❋ Unknown (2009)
On Friday morning, the colonel returned to the staging area, where his staff had set up a forward command post -- a tent and a series of antennas in the compound yard of an abandoned three-room house with barrel-vault ceilings made of mud brick. ❋ Matthew Rosenberg (2010)
A barrel-vault ceiling on the LIRR's corridor running parallel to 34th Street might provide some overhead space in an otherwise cramped concourse — if it weren't interrupted by a giant, mirrored box that juts out over the heads of commuters. ❋ Andrew Grossman (2010)
The age of this staircase is uncertain, but its west wall is of course the east wall of Archbishop Roger's transept, and its barrel-vault is under his buttresses which will be seen in the ❋ Cecil Walter Charles Hallett (N/A)
The ceiling is a barrel-vault with large and small arched ribs pierced in each bay by the small vaults in which the clerestory windows open. ❋ Various (N/A)
Chapter-house admits to a staircase which, roofed with a sloping barrel-vault and descending southwards, turns eastwards, under another round arch, into the crypt. ❋ Cecil Walter Charles Hallett (N/A)
By the skilful use of linear perspective, light, and shade, he made the great barrel-vault of the nave of the church into an idealized aula from which is seen the reception of St. Ignatius into the opened heavens. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Of these objections the chief is that the horizontal thrust of a barrel-vault is evenly distributed throughout its entire length. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
But, though simplest alike in conception and in construction, the cylindrical barrel-vault is in fact the least satisfactory that could be devised for its purpose; and the objections which militate against its employment are equally valid against that of the barrel-vault whose cross section forms a pointed arch. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The simplest form which the vaulting of a rectangular chamber can take is, of course, the cylindrical barrel-vault; and this is, in fact, the form which was adopted in many of the earliest examples of vaulted roofs, especially in the south of France; a form, too, which was extensively used in Italy during the age of the Renaissance. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The gradual development of cross-vaulting it is to be observed, did not take place in those districts of Southern and Central France which had already become the home of the barrel-vault and to a less degree of the cupola, but first in Lombardy then in Germany, and finally in ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The inherent shortcomings of the barrel-vault, especially when used as a roof for the nave of an aisled church, have been sufficiently illustrated. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The magnificent barrel-vault is decorated with richly gilt cassettes; the cornices, the fourteen antique columns of giallo antico, cipollino, alabaster, and Egyptian granite, the transverse hall equally dividing the whole, the marble floor, all contribute an appropriate setting for the masterpieces. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
At a certain height each succeeding course in the wall begins to project inwards over the last, so that the walls, as it were, lean together and finally meet to form a false barrel-vault or a false dome, according as the structure is rectangular or round. ❋ Unknown (1908)
Lateral windows can be carried up to the full height of the vaulting instead of being stopped below its springing; and the weight and thrust of the vaulting are concentrated upon a number of isolated points instead of being exerted along the whole extent of the side walls, as with the barrel-vault. ❋ Unknown (1890)
It is probable that the vault was used for roofing many of the halls; the arch was certainly employed for doors and the barrel-vault for the drainage-tunnels under the terraces, made necessary by the heavy rainfall. ❋ Unknown (1890)
Mans+ the groined vaulting which in 1158 was substituted for the original barrel-vault of the cathedral is of very primitive design, singularly heavy and awkward, although nearly contemporary with that of ❋ Unknown (1890)
In the latter church, one of the finest and most interesting French edifices of the twelfth century, a groined vault replaced the barrel-vault, though the oblong plan of the vaulting-bays, due to the nave being wider than the pier-arches, led to somewhat awkward twisted surfaces in the vaulting. ❋ Unknown (1890)
