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Sexpartite vault

Sexpartite vault
Sexpartite vaulting, [[Lyon Cathedral

In architecture, a sexpartite vault is a rib vault divided into six bays by two diagonal ribs and three transverse ribs.{{cite book

The principal examples are those in the Abbaye-aux-Hommes and Abbaye-aux-Dames at Caen (which were probably the earliest examples of a construction now looked upon as transitional), Notre-Dame de Paris, and the cathedrals of Bourges, Laon, Senlis and Sens; from the latter cathedral the sexpartite vault was brought by William of Sens to Canterbury, and it is afterwards found at Lincoln and in St Faith's Chapel, Westminster Abbey.

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  1. [http://www.westminster-abbey.org/archive/visit-us/highlights/saint-faiths-chapel Saint Faith's Chapel - Westminster Abbey]
  2. {{EB1911
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