domical
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All the vaults are domical, and those of the nave spring from corbels carved in the style of Venetian fifteenth-century work.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
The narthex is in five bays, the two terminal bays having cross-groined vaults, the three central, vaults of a domical character with blunt rounded groins at the springing.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen
S. Mary Abchurch, is nearly square in plan, has no columns and is covered with a domical ceiling, but so skilfully treated that the effect is singularly pleasing.
From Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them by Sidney Heath
The climax of a domical church is obviously the dome.
From The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See by A. (Arthur) Clutton-Brock
It should therefore rather be called a domical vault.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen
