Sexpartite vault
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In architecture, a sexpartite vault is a rib vault divided into six bays by two diagonal ribs and three transverse ribs.[1]
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,[2] Westminster Abbey.[3]
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