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What is a groin vault How is it made?
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14 Dec '12 11:50 am
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It's a vault made of two intersecting barrel vaults (a barrel vault is basically a series of ordinary semi-circular arches, making for a long semi-circular ceiling) that have the same diameter as one another. See the wikipedia article on groin vaults for more information.
Answered by radha sharma, 15 Dec '12 05:42 pm
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It's a vault made of two intersecting barrel vaults (a barrel vault is basically a series of ordinary semi-circular arches, making for a long semi-circular ceiling) that have the same diameter as one another. See the wikipedia article on groin vaults for more information.
Answered by Quest, 15 Dec '12 11:18 am
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It's a vault made of two intersecting barrel vaults (a barrel vault is basically a series of ordinary semi-circular arches, making for a long semi-circular ceiling) that have the same diameter as one another. See the wikipedia article on groin vaults for more information.
Answered by anantharaman, 14 Dec '12 07:51 pm
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It's a vault made of two intersecting barrel vaults (a barrel vault is basically a series of ordinary semi-circular arches, making for a long semi-circular ceiling) that have the same diameter as one another. See the wikipedia article on groin vaults for more information.
Answered by Ataur Rahman, 14 Dec '12 11:53 am
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