Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, a barrel- or cradle-vault; a semicircular vault. See
cylindrical vaulting , under cylindric.
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Examples
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Passing through the vestibule, whose tunnel-vault supports the tower, the minor portal appears, almost a replica of the outer door, and the whole forms an unusual mode of entrance, graceful in detail, ponderous in general effect.
Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose
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Far above rises the tunnel-vault, whose sheer height is grandly dignified; the arches rest on roughly carved capitals, and the outer rectangle of the piers is displaced for half a column.
Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose
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His archivolts and the pendentives of his vaults always rest upon thick walls, and yet almost every variety of the simple arch or tunnel-vault are to be found among the ruins of his buildings.
A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Georges Perrot 1873
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The nave was roofed with a tunnel-vault with a pointed one over it, on which the roofing slabs were laid. "
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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