Arthur Stratton · Series VI. Rectangular Plans Disposed for Internal Effect

Plate XXIX. Rectangular Halls with Vaulted Ceilings

1 live illustration in this chapter

Plate XXIX. — In Nos. I-IV is shown a type of simple rectangular plan covered with a barrel vault: the lighting is of the clerestorey type, groined lunettes being arranged at the springing of the vault. This scheme has been used in an isolated building with an apse at one end covered with a semi-dome as shown, but it offers suggestions for the treatment of halls and small places of assembly in which any considerable encroachment on the floor space is undesirable. Nos. V and VI are variations of the foregoing in which additional interest is given to the internal perspective by columns standing clear of the walls and carrying simple intersecting vaults with light admitted through lunettes.

Fig. 1A rectangular hall under a barrel vault, the covering of Plate XXIX; Stratton adds groined lunettes at the springing for clerestorey light, which the model omits. Open in Models ↗

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