Sexpartite vault
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Sexpartite vault, in architecture, is a rib vault divided into six bays by two diagonal ribs and three transerse ribs. [1]
The principal examples are those in the Abbaye-aux-Hommes and Abbaye-aux-Dames at Caen (which were probably the earliest examples of a construction now looked upon as transitional), Notre Dame de Paris, and the cathedrals of Bourges, Laon, Noyon, Senlis and Sens; from the latter cathedral the sexpartite vault was brought by William of Sens to Canterbury, and it is afterwards found at Lincoln and in St Faith's Chapel, Westminster Abbey.
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- ^ Ching, Francis D.K. (1995). A Visual Dictionary of Architecture. New York: John Wiley and Sons, p. 263. ISBN 0-471-82451-3.
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
