Glossary · C
Cloister vault
Also called domical vault (on a square)
A vault rising from all four walls of a room, its curved cells meeting in valleys along the diagonals; the intersection rather than the union of two barrels.
See also: Groin vault
Rules that use the word
The cloister vault: the groin turned inside out. Where the groin vault is the union of two barrels, the cloister (domical) vault is their intersection: four curved cells rise from all four walls and meet in valleys along the diagonals. It needs walls on every side.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Vaults, Renaissance and Baroque.
Nearby in the glossary
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