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A Vault (French. voute, Italian. volta, German. Gewölbe, Polish. sklepienie, Spanish. bóveda) is an architectural term for an arched form used to provide a space with a ceiling or roof.

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  • Vault diagram

    Interior elevation view of a Gothic cathedral, with rib-vaulted roof highlighted

  • Voûte en tranches inclinées

    In a pitched-brick vault the bricks lean (are pitched) against an existing wall.

  • St Paul's Cathedral Choir looking east, London, UK - Diliff

    St Paul's Cathedral Choir looking east, London

  • Salisbury Cathedral, top of vaulted ceiling over nave

    Top of the rib-vaulted ceiling over the nave of Salisbury Cathedral

  • Adil Shah's Tomb, Inside Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur, Karnataka

    Vaults and dome of the Gol Gumbaz

  • Spomen Hram Svetog Save unutrasnost

    Neobyzantine vaults in Saint Sava. The vaults, 37.7 m high and 24 m wide are designed as concrete boxes. They were prefabricated and lifted with chains to their shown positions.

  • Voûte de l'église Saint-Séverin à Paris

    Gothic rib vault ceiling of the Saint-Séverin church in Paris

  • Vault fig 01

    Assyrian bas-relief from Nimrud showing domed structures in the background

  • Groin vault under edit

    A groin vault viewed from the underside, showing the arris or 'groin'

  • Groin vault plan force

    Plan of a groin vault from above showing resultant outward thrust

  • Reims Cathedral, interior (4)

    The rib vault of Reims Cathedral, France

  • Fresco vault Gent

    Rib vault of church Sint-Niklaaskerk in Ghent, Belgium

  • Lienzingen-Liebfrauenkirche 1

    Rib-vault ceiling, with Lierne ribs, of the Liebfrauenkirche, Mühlacker 1482

  • Bath.abbey.fan.vault.arp

    Fan vaulting over the nave at Bath Abbey, Bath, England

  • Hagia-Sophia-Laengsschnitt

    Section through the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul

  • Vnejsiklenutisacrecoeur

    Neo-Byzantine vaults in portal of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, Paris, France

  • Image-LittleHagiaSophiaInIstanbulDome

    The dome of the Church of the Saints Sergius and Bacchus

  • Lisbon28

    Nave of Lisbon Cathedral with a barrel vaulted soffit. Note the absence of clerestory windows, all of the light being provided by the rose window at one end of the vault.

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