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Fan vault
Also called fan vaults, fan vaulting, conoid
An English late-Gothic vault of inverted half-cones (conoids) whose ribs all have the same curve, decorated as panel tracery, with flat spandrels between.
See also: Perpendicular tracery
Rules that use the word
The fan vault: identical cones of tracery. Make each springer the foot of an inverted half-cone (a conoid) whose ribs all have the same curve and are cut across by horizontal rings; where the conoids stop, fill the centre with flat panels.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Vaults, Romanesque and Gothic, Enlightenment and Revival.
Nearby in the glossary
Eustyle · Exedra · Extrados · Eye-catcher · Fanlight · Fascia · Fauces · Fen