Fan vault

A fan vault is a form of vault used in the Perpendicular Gothic style. All its ribs are of the same curve and spaced the same.

Fan vaulting over the nave at Bath Abbey, Bath, England.

This beautiful and elegant Gothic style of architecture, at its earliest appears in 1351.

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