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groined vault

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groined vault, groin vault
groined vault
A compound vault in which barrel vaults intersect, forming arrises called groins.


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Instead of Grosch's low, groined vaults, the lightweight concrete roof of the pavilion is carried on four columns and hovers over the space like a Soanian shallow dome.
Some of the groined vaults will be opened to install air conditioning ducts in the nave, sanctuary and narthex, which will be accomplished by creating a longitudinal convexity upward in the intersecting vaults.
More significant is the Breakfast Room, for it contains the earliest of Soane's starfish ceiling vaults, a very personalised development of the conventional groined vault that Soane used in several of his Bank of England interiors after 1788, notably in the Bank Stock Office of 1792 and in country houses such as Bentley Priory, Middlesex in 1798 and in Tyringham Hall, Buckinghamshire in 1793-1800.
 
 
 
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