Unit 5C Early Rib Vaults:

LATE ROMANESQUE and

EARLY GOTHIC




01-quadripartite rib 

02-transverse ribs 

03-diagonal rib 

04-infill 

05-ridgerib 

06-MILAN, SANT'AMBROGIO 
Late Romanesque

07-Sant'Ambrogio-Section 

08-Sant' Ambrogio 

09-Sant'Ambrogio nave

10-Sant'Ambrogio choir

11-corbel 

12-Durham Cathedral-elevation 
alternating supports, rib vaults resting on shafts (strong piers) and corbels (above weak piers)

13-Durham 
(blue is the transverse rib, red the diagonal ribs)

14-Durham-Plan 

15-Durham
two quadripartite ribs per bay

16-Durham-aisle
quadripartite rib vault

17-Durham-choir
segment of choir vault 

18-St-Denis-Plan 

19-St-Denis narthex 

20-St-Denis-choir 

21-St-Denis
ambulatory
quadripartite rib vault

22-St-Denis ambulatory
quadripartite rib vault

23-sexpartite rib vault 

24-Sens Cathedral
alternating supports, sexpartite rib vaults

25-Sens Cathedral
sexpartite rib vault

26-Sens Cathedral -plan 
(note the quadripartite rib vaults in the aisles and ambulatory)

27-Sens Cathedral-elevation
(note the alternation of supports and of shafting receiving the ribs)

28-Laon Cathedral plan 

29-Laon Cathedral
note the alternation of supports at the crossing end of the nave
EARLY GOTHIC

30-Laon Cathedral
four storey elevation, vaulted gallery, alternating number of shafts receive the ribs

31-Canterbury-Choir
sexpartite rib vaults

32 Caen, Abbey of St-Etienne
arcade, vaulted gallery, triforium passage at clerestory level

33 Caen St-Etienne

34-Caen-Abbey of La Trinité 

35-Caen-LaTrinité 
arcade, blind arcading, triforium passage at clerestory level

36-Bourges Cathedral
sex-partite rib vaults

37-Bourges-plan
(sexpartite vaults in the nave and choir, quadripartite in the aisles and ambulatories)

38-Bourges
arcade, triforium, clerestory (elevation repeated in the inner aisles)

39-Bourges-east end
(flying buttresses replace the gallery)

40-flier 

41-Chartres Cathedral plan 
(quadripartite rib vaults throughout)

42-Chartres-section
(flying buttresses replace the gallery)

43-Chartres
quadripartite rib vault

44-Chartres-nave butresses 

45-Chartres-choir buttresses 

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