Groin Vault - Examples

Examples

  • Baths of Caracalla, Rome, Italy, early 3rd century AD 32.9 meter high groined structure
  • Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel in Aachen, Germany
  • Santa Maria Maggiore di Firenze, Florence, Italy, 11th century church
  • Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio, Milan, Italy
  • Old Cathedral of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, lateral aisles, 12th century
  • Muchalls Castle, Scotland, ground floor rooms from the 14th century
  • All early Russian palaces, including the Palace of Facets (1487-91)
  • Church of St. Triphon at Ivan III's suburban estate of Naprudnoe, near Moscow, 1490s
  • Three churches of the Rostov Kremlin, 1670s and 1680s
  • Exchange and Provost (Provost Dungeon), Charleston, South Carolina, 1771
  • New Orleans Mint, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1838
  • Aztec Center San Diego State, San Diego, California, 1968 now demolished.

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