Sexpartite vault

Sexpartite vault

Sexpartite vault, in architecture, is a rib vault divided into six bays by two diagonal ribs and three transerse ribs. [cite book
first=Francis D.K.
last= Ching
year= 1995
title= A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
edition=
publisher=John Wiley and Sons
location=New York
pages= p. 263
id= ISBN 0-471-82451-3]

The principal examples are those in the Abbaye-aux-Hommes and Abbaye-aux-Dames at Caen (which were probably the earliest examples of a construction now looked upon as transitional), Notre Dame de Paris, and the cathedrals of Bourges, Laon, Noyon, Senlis and Sens; from the latter cathedral the sexpartite vault was brought by William of Sens to Canterbury, and it is afterwards found at Lincoln and in St Faith's Chapel, Westminster Abbey.

ee also

* Cathedral architecture

References

*1911


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