Glossary · W
Web
Also called webs, cell, cells, severy, severies, infill
The thin infilling of a rib vault between the ribs; each triangular section of it is a cell or severy.
See also: Rib vault
Rules that use the word
Ribs first, webs after. Build the arches of the vault first (transverse, wall and diagonal ribs) on light centring, then fill the triangular cells between them with thin webs of stone laid course by course from rib to rib.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Vaults, Romanesque and Gothic, The Islamic World.
Nearby in the glossary
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