Durham roofs a great nave with ribbed vaults

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1. Story
2. The high vaults of Durham Cathedral are built in stages from the 1090s to about 1133, the earliest surviving large-scale rib vaults over a major church. Pointed transverse arches appear in the nave. The building around them is emphatically Romanesque, which is the point: the structural device arrives long before the architectural language usually credited with it.
3. Knowledge
4. The Gothic rib vault
5. Durham Cathedral
6. Durham roofs a great nave with ribbed vaults
7. Connections
8. Durham Cathedral
9. The Gothic rib vault
10. The Gothic rib vault
11. Durham roofs a great nave with ribbed vaults
12. The voussoir arch
13. The flying buttress
14. Durham Cathedral
15. Chartres Cathedral
16. Durham roofs a great nave with ribbed vaults
17. Suger's choir at Saint-Denis is consecrated
18. The high vaults of Chartres close at about 36-37 m
19. Fire destroys the roof and spire of Notre-Dame de Paris
20. Evidence
21. Reconstructs how Gothic vaults were actually erected, with centring, falsework and sequence as the central problem, and treats the economy of timber formwork as a driver of the rib vault. Supports the STRUCTURE_GOTHIC_VAULT and Gothic site records. V55 verification basis: real and standard, not consulted in this session.
22. Comparative structural analysis of large pre-industrial buildings, treating span, thrust and material strength as the variables that determine what each period could build. Supports the load-path framing used throughout this pack and the structural contrasts drawn between post-and-lintel, corbelling, the voussoir arch, the dome and the rib vault. V55 verification basis: this volume is a real and standard reference named in the Journey declaration, but it was NOT consulted in this session - WebFetch is refused by the environment egress proxy for all research domains and the session WebSearch budget was exhausted before production began.