Saints' statues stand about the altar, and grouped about the dome of the groined ceiling are such paintings as would do honor to a European Cathedral.
The roof of San Xavier del Bac is a series of the most perfect groined domes, with the deep embrasures of the windows on each side colored shell tints in wave-lines.
On the groined arches of the dome are figures of the Wise Men, the Flight to Egypt, the Shepherds, the Annunciation.
The roof above the nave is supported by groined arches from door to altar.
For the builders found that groined vaults of domed up type could be built so lightly as to require but little centering, and a return to this simple form was made in such churches as San Lanfranco at Pavia.
Its most noticeable feature is the lack of ribs in the triangular bays, these remaining of simple Romanesque groined type.
At Laon the remaining bays of the chapel are groined and if their vaults are original, this presents one of the few examples of a church completely groined and especially of one with the combination of groined vault and ribbed chevet.
A more important and independent group of groined vaulted churches is to be found in Normandy.
It may be noted that La Madeleine also resembles St. Germer in having a groined triforium.
The ceilings of the reception-rooms are formed by groinedvaults of considerable rise springing from carved stone corbels.
From the Council Chamber is reached the stone-groined Treasury, now used for the safe keeping of muniments and records.
The original groined ceiling has thus been made visible from below.
The east walk of the cloister, 150 feet in length, has a fine groined roof of the fifteenth century.
We next glance into St. Thomas's Chapel, one of the oldest portions of the fabric, whose massive groined roof is adorned with sculptured bosses of unusual size.
Passing through the chancel, we now enter a quaint little side-chapel with pretty two-light window and low, groined ceiling whose stony ribs look strong enough to carry a tower.
This Trewern Chapel has a solidly groined stone ceiling and elegantly proportioned windows, with a projecting turret for the stairway, leading to an upper chamber, as depicted in the adjoining sketch.
An adjacent tower contains the chapel, dating from Edwardian times and retaining its groined ceiling; and in one of the upper chambers we notice a fireplace bearing what appear to be the arms of Spain.
These extremely slender shafts look unequal to the heavy groinedroof they support; for although nearly thirty feet high, the four largest are not quite ten inches in diameter, while the clustered ones are mere rods.
The vaulting of the tower roof is also in the perpendicular style and shows excellent groined work.
The remains of painting on the groined ceiling are not likely to escape notice,--the figures of St. Peter and St. Paul can be easily distinguished.
It would seem that during the XI century the Normans, like the Lombards, used what Mr. Bilson calls ribbed groined vaults, occasionally, for one reason or another.
There are five windows in the upper chamber, and the groinedroof is distinctly good.
The upper story, containing an apartment, is sustained on a vaulted and groined roof, and has three large windows, with elaborate tracery.
It has a vaulted roof, supported by groined arches, and embellished with moulded tracery of great beauty.
A fine specimen of the architecture of the fourteenth century, this portal is vaulted with groined arches adorned with exquisite tracery springing from grotesque heads.
Most frequently naves and transepts were unvaulted, and finished with wood ceilings, while the aisles were covered with groined vaults of rubble, on transverse arches.
Soon a very great step in advance was made by the invention or application of diagonal ribs under the intersection of the plain groined vault.
About the middle of the 11th century the Normans began to experiment with cross-groined vaults and their application to the church problem.
The dates of their vaults have never been quite settled; that of Spires would seem to have been the earliest built, probably after 1162, when the church was seriously damaged by a conflagration, and the vault isgroined only.
We imagined her stately figure in antique robes, standing beneath the groined arches of the oratory.
A wine cellar with finely groined roof probably belonged to a crypt of its chapel, which has vanished.
The groined roof is divided into two bays, and in each bay there is a large central boss, having eight bosses encircling it, four large and four small ones, the four small ones being in each case the further away from the centre.
The most striking peculiarity in the Scottish stone roof-work is the use of the single vault instead of the transverse groined vaulting, deemed essential elsewhere to ecclesiastical roofing.
The upper floor, forming one half of the dormitory, has disappeared, but there still remain the bases of the two central pillars which supported the groined roof.
The ruins of the chapter-house are remarkably fine, and in good preservation, with a beautiful early Gothic groined roof.
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