10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FAN VAULTING»
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fan vaulting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
fan vaulting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Vault Stitch Also known as fan vaulting Vault stitch is a canvas stitch used on
single canvas for filling large shapes and background areas. It makes a regularly
textured surface that is enhanced by the use of a soft wool thread, such as
tapestry ...
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Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England, 1272-1485
The fan vaulting typical of many English examples developed from this period, as
did the star-shaped vault formed from the added ribs. The final phase of Gothic
style is the Perpendicular, which depends upon the vertical lines of window ...
Ronald H. Fritze, William Baxter Robison, 2002
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Papers Read at the Royal Institute of British Architects
I am not aware of any example of the double curvature until we come to those
roofs, which are known as " fan vaulting," and in these the object to be effected
would be economy of centres, because they would have a certain number of ribs
all ...
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How It Works: Science and Technology
In fan vaulting it is the central spandrel that is the problem. Here the curvature is
almost flat, and the spans are wide. To keep the distance from becoming
dangerously large and therefore making the vault unsafe, the only thing to do
was to ...
Marshall Cavendish Corporation Staff, 2003
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The Splendor of English Gothic Architecture
The fan vaulting in the Gloucester cloister can be seen as the logical
consequence of the development from the tierceron vault, in the advancements of
the Curvilinear style. The fans of the vault are really just conoid springer vaults of
tiercerons ...
John Shannon Hendrix, 2012
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Secrets of Kings College Chapel
Fan vaulting, taken from the nearby Augustinian abbey and dated 1508, exists in
Circencester, in the chapel of St Katherine, and Abbot Lichfield's chantries in the
churches of All Saints' and St Lawrence in Lichfield are dated 1514 and 1539.
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A history of Architecture on the comparative method
return was made to the Roman method of vault construction, for in fan vaulting
the whole vault is often constructed in jointed masonry, the panels being sunk in
the soflit of the stones forming the vault instead of being separate stones resting
on ...
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Discovering Churches and Churchyards
Vaulting The peculiarly English form of decoration known as fan vaulting was pre
-eminent. This may be described as a trumpet-shaped, inverted cone of masonry
formed by a series of ribs that diverge equally in all directions from a common ...
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Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects of ...
But such distortions never appear in these figures in fan vaulting, so that we may
assume that these details were traced upon the lower surface of the vault stones,
but that all the principal lines necessary for obtaining the form of the stones and ...
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Historic English Churches: A Guide to Their Construction, ...
The progression to fan vaulting was the ultimate achievement, with the concave
curvatures of the ribs radiating out to connecting semicircular ribs. Fine examples
of this can be found at Gloucester Cathedral and Sherborne Abbey in Dorset.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FAN VAULTING»
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Will Sandry becomes new Mayor of Bath in moving ceremony at …
I hope like me, with friends around you, you looked up and marvelled at the spectacular stone fan vaulting; maybe you thought that we are ... «Bath Chronicle, Jun 15»
Rooms With a View
... Brunei and Elton John have lived—Giubbilei planted rows of plane trees so radically pruned that their branches resemble Gothic fan vaulting. «Architectural Digest, May 15»
The Tallis Scholars Are Abstract yet Ravishing
Think fan vaulting. With 50 discs to your credit, I would suppose that Tallis Scholars' recordings encompass a significant portion of surviving ... «Santa Barbara Independent, Dec 14»
Christmas events in Britain
The 14th century cathedral with its fan vaulting is a fine backdrop for a series of Christmas music performances, from J S Bach's Christmas ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 14»
Love Sherborne group profile: Sherborne Abbey Bell Ringers
The bells were set into a new frame and a ringing chamber was created just above the tower fan vaulting. It is from here that the bells are rung ... «Western Gazette, Sep 14»
Ruin Lust review – transience, doom and lyrical melancholy
... as light pours through the empty windows and shadows touch the centuries-old fan vaulting that rises to nothing but open sky, these painters ... «The Guardian, Mar 14»
Give way to Gothic art
... ribbed and fan vaulting as seen in Canterbury Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral; buttresses as seen in Notre Dame De Paris and Bath abbey; ... «Deccan Herald, Sep 13»
Eight free things to do in Bath this summer
Marvel at the magnificent stained glass windows, columns of honey-gold stone and some of the finest fan vaulting in the world at beautiful Bath ... «Express.co.uk, Aug 13»
Somerset Levels: a winter wildlife spectacle
Stand in their midst and you see nothing but colonnades of bare trunks, row on row, a cider cathedral with a fan vaulting of branches that meet ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 13»
The Temple and the Garden of God
The pillars were like trunks of trees–the beautifully decorated fan vaulting and arches were the spreading cover of the branches. The tops of the ... «Patheos, Nov 12»
