The vaulting of the nave is extremely domical in its section.
The vaults are all slightly domical in section; the diagonal ribs generally semi-circular, as also are the wall-ribs.
But it appears to have lost its ancient roof; and I cannot understand, from the drawing, how the domical roof, which it was no doubt built to receive, can now possibly exist.
The east end is square, but the vaulting is apsidal, the angles of the square end being cut across by domical pendentives below the vaulting.
The old outside roof is destroyed; but the finish of the lanterns of Lérida and of the old cathedral of Salamanca seems to make it pretty certain that it was intended to have a pyramidal or domical stone roof.
The church is vaulted throughout, with very domical vaults, and lighted with lancets in the aisles, circular windows in the clerestory, and traceried windows in the choir.
The groining throughout the greater part of the church seems to be of the original thirteenth-century work, with ribs finely moulded, and vaulting cells slightly domical in section.
Although no remains have ever been found of domes in any of the Assyrian palaces, the representation of many domicalforms is given in a bas-relief found at Kuyunjik (fig.
Three huge so-called domical vaults, truly Gothic in construction, span the sixty-foot unaisled nave of St. Maurice.
While the so-called domical vault in other schools had been a transitional step, in Plantagenet Gothic it was intentionally persisted in and became the most distinguishing characteristic of the school.
In the narthex, or porch between the towers, was tried an experiment to eliminate the so-called domical shape of the first Gothic vaults.
As the masons acquired skill in the making of Gothic stone roofs, this domical form died out; by stilting, by depressing, and by pointing the arches was the difficulty solved.
Le Mans' nave are of the heavy rib Plantagenet type, like the so-called domical vaults of Angers Cathedral.
In some of the central and southern districts, domes, or at least domical vaults, were employed.
St. Paul's stands second only to St. Peter's as a greatdomical cathedral of Renaissance architecture.
Alessio was also the architect of a large domical church (il Carignano) in the same city; but it is far inferior in merit to his series of palaces.
The vaulting approaches in construction the "cupola inspiration"; but here, as at Angers and Poitiers, it is an example of only the last traces which remain to us of the domical design.
The vaulting of the roof here follows the same sub-domical design as that of Notre Dame de la Coûture at Le Mans.
Sophia strikes the modern at once as unlike the domical churches with which he is familiar.
It is the most elaborate of all the fountains, but the little ones at the street corners, with an arched or domical pent-house above them and some small decorative inscription above the marble founts, have a simple charm of their own.
In the sixth century the domical style decisively replaced the basilican; and nowhere can the transition be more clearly traced than in Constantinople.
It is decorated with many niches and figures, and a fine cresting round the domical top.
From the pilasters between the apses cross arches spring beneath a domicalvault with a pendant at their intersection; in the left pilaster by the apse is a recess.
The tower appears to have been added above the north aisle about 1463; it finishes with a shafted parapet and two open octagons with domical roofs, one above the other.
This brick and stone walling is, so far as could be ascertained, homogeneous right up to the domicalvault and the dome.
A careful survey of the building shows clearly that the domical character of the chapel is not original, and that the structure when first erected was a simple hall covered with a wooden roof.
It should therefore rather be called a domical vault.
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.
Sergius and Bacchus was a domical church, while SS.
On either side of the nave, towards the eastern end of each aisle, there is an approximately square compartment covered with a domical vault, and having an opening communicating with the nave immediately to the west of the bema.
The conclusion that in the present building we have parts representing different periods solves also the problem of the elliptical domical vault.
In some bas-reliefs, buildings with roofs of a domical shape are represented.
With the fall of Rome and the rise of Constantinople these forms underwent in the East another transformation, called the Byzantine, in the development of Christian domical church architecture.
St. Paul’s ranks among the five or six greatest domical buildings of Europe, and is the most imposing modern edifice in England.
The builders of the South and West, influenced by Aquitanian models, adhered to the square plan and domical form of vaulting-bay, even after they had begun to employ groin-ribs.
Mansart and Lemercier, a domical church of excellent proportions begun under Louis XIII.
The design of Bramante, who began its erection in 1506, comprised a Greek cross with apsidal arms, the four angles occupied by domical chapels and loggias within a square outline (Fig.
The church of the +Greek Rite+ at St. Petersburg combines a Roman domical interior with an exterior of the Greek Doric order.
That the fundamental idea inspiring this movement, from the basilica to the perfect development of a domical building, was legitimate, and capable of producing magnificent results, cannot be disputed.
The combination of basilican and domical features which it displays is a tribute at once to the influence of old tastes and to the influence of a new fashion.
Even the pendentive that fills the triangular space between two contiguous arches at right angles to each other, so characteristic of Byzantine architecture, is claimed to be an earlier device in domical construction.
The object which these men set themselves to accomplish was to combine the advantages of a basilican edifice with the advantages of a domical building.
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