wagon vault

noun

1. barrel vault.

wagon vault

noun

1. another name for barrel vault

Word History and Origins

Origin of wagon vault¹

First recorded in 1825–35

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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