barrel vault
Example Sentences
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There is no grand lobby with barrel vault ceiling; instead, the viewer is greeted by the sloping walls and gentle asymmetries of a rough-hewn cave, our most archaic form of shelter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2023
Johnson’s heavy-handed barrel vault has been replaced by a delicate glass V-shaped butterfly roof.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
And “the barrel vault over the library distinctly recalls Stourhead,” an 18th-century Palladian house in the English county of Wiltshire, he noted.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2022
The colors of this piece are remarkable, from the deep blue of the Madonna’s robes to the alabaster skin of the Christ child, all beneath a golden barrel vault.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 21, 2019
The chapel is rectangular, with a barrel vault.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
