Fan vaulting over the nave at Bath Abbey, Bath, England. Made from local Bath stone, this is a Victorian restoration (in the 1860s) of the original roof of 1608.

A fan vault is a form of In architecture, a vault is an arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. Vaulting makes it possible to roof over a comparatively large space using bricks, stone blocks or unreinforced concrete. (Until the development of metal girders in the 19th century, the only alternative was to use long... vault used in the the Perpendicular Gothic style, in which the ribs are all of the same curve and spaced equidistantly, in a manner resembling a Fan can mean the following: enthusiast or fanatic air-movement device This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly... fan.

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