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FAN VAULT

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 172 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FAN VAULT , in See also:architecture, a method of vaulting used in the Perpendicular See also:style, of which the earliest example is found in the cloisters of See also:Gloucester See also:cathedral, built towards the See also:close of the 14th See also:century. The ribs are all of one See also:curve and equidistant, and their divergency, resembling that of an open fan, has suggested the name. One of the finest examples, though of later date (1640), is the vault over the See also:staircase of See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford. For the origin of its development see VAULT.

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