The groining is all of the kind so common in Spain, having ogeelierne ribs in addition to the diagonal, and in place of ridge ribs.
At first the cylindrical Roman vault, then the same vault supported by quadrant vaults over the aisles, then simple quadripartite vaults, and finally vaults supported on very elaborate systems of lierne ribs.
The vault of the chantry is richly groined with lierne work; it is tinted a vivid blue on the back-ground, and the bosses on the groins are gilt.
The vault above, though not so elaborate as that of Langton's chapel on the right hand, is a fine example of lierne work, and the shafts are noticeable for their capitals and bases.
The clerestory follows round from the nave, and overhead is the later lierne vault.
It is separated from the Lady Chapel by an open-work screen, which is very beautiful, and has a fine lierne vault.
Between each pair of clerestory windows is a niche, and from the heads of these spring the ribs, which form a beautiful example of lierne vaulting.
The contrast between the Norman piers and the Perpendicular piers at the west end is noticeable, also the disappearance of the triforium in the last bay and the lierne vault.
The lierne vault is one of the finest in England, with its multitudinous ribs, and ranks with King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and Westminster.
The lierne vault is very fine, and the bosses carved with beautiful foliage.
Perpendicular windows have been inserted in south and west walls, and the liernevaulting belongs to the same period.
The old Norman roof was destroyed by fire in 1463, when Bishop Lyhart, who loved to display his punning rebus, a stag lying in water, erected the lierne stone vaulted roof, which is a noble specimen of its kind.
A long vista of Norman arches, and beautiful expanse of vaultedlierne roofing, is most impressive.
The vaulting is lierne vaulting, with short ribs, which connect the main ribs together.
The lierne vaulting of the vestibule is very delicate (the ribs, it will be noted, are run differently in the four quarters of the roof), and the pendants form a cross.
The general effect of the endless cutting up of the vaults into numberless compartments by the complicated system of lierne ribs is one of restlessness.
Such window cells as these naturally left a large central space along the crown of the vault, which was usually decorated by extra lierne and ridge ribs.
The combinations inlierne vaulting are of course without number and only a few can be discussed.
Still other lierne vaults have more than one ridge rib.
Gothic character, while the church of the Holy Cross at Gmund[281] is covered with vaulting of complex lierne type.
As for lierne vaults, they, too, appear on the Continent especially in Germany and Spain.
It is almost impossible to classify the remaining lierne vaults under separate heads, though there are certain characteristics which belong to one group and not to another.
Thus many examples might be cited of lierne and tierceron vaulting in all degrees of complexity, especially in England,[336] while fan vaulting is to be seen in the abbey church of Bath (cir.
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