A sexpartite vault is a ribbed vault with two diagonal ribs, two primary tranverse ribs with an intermediate transverse rib. The ribs define six distinct cells in the vault. It is a development of the normal ribbed vault, adding an extra transverse rib. This gives a ceiling a more unified effect, making it look lighter. The sexpartite rib vault was an innovation of Romanesque or Norman architecture, although used often in Gothic architecture, and was probably used for the first time at St. Etienne in Caen in the early 12th century. from w:sv:Bild:Sexdelat_kryssribbvalv. ... from w:sv:Bild:Sexdelat_kryssribbvalv. ... In architecture, a vault is an arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. ...
In architecture, a vault is an arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.
In the early Romanesque period, a return to stone barrell vaults was seen for the first great Cathedrals; their interiors were fairly dark.
But with the reintroduction of the groin vault, more light could be brought into the buildings: instead of building groin vaults as the intersection of two barrell vaults, the master masons simply built one long line of groin vaults.
the expedient was adopted of constructing half-barrel vaults springing from the aisle walls and abutting against the vaults of the nave beneath the lean-to roof.
During the second phase (1140-80) the problem of vaulting great naves was attacked; the evolution centres in the peculiar development which the genius of the French builders gave to the concealed flying buttress and to the sexpartitevault, both borrowed from Normandy (Porter, op.
Barrel vaults were occasionally used, groin vaults in innumerable cases; the groin vault with ribs first occurs in Durham in 1093, an astonishing date, since the earliest ribbedvault claimed for France is in the diminutive church of Rhuis, a structure the date of which is unknown, but is placed at about 1100.
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