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- the main longitudinal ridge rib. Secondary arched diagonal ribs, called tiercerons, span from the springers to the transverse ridge ribs. Liernes (shaded...
- profusion of tierceron ribs like palm leaves, with as many as eleven tiercerons curving upward from a single springer. An octagonal tierceron vault completed...
- and Griffe 62.5 Mulatto Negro and white 50 Os rouge Negro and Indian 50 Tierceron Mulatoon and Quadroon 37.5 Quadroon White and Mulatto 25 Octoroon White...
- Tierceron-lierne vaulting of the choir and fan vaulting of the crossing of St George's Chapel, with the Garter banners on either side below...
- (1192–), and Salisbury (1220–) are all, with Canterbury, major examples. Tierceronsdecorative vaulting ribs – seem first to have been used in vaulting...
- extended since. The ceiling over the central section of the nave is a tierceron vault in plaster; this was added during William Burn's restoration of...
- Stellar vault – from Lierne (vault). A Rib vault including liernes and tiercerons forming a star shaped pattern of ribs. Stilted vault – See Ploughshare...
- which runs along the apex of the vault. There may be intermediate or "tierceron" ribs, which have their origin at the columns. In Decorated Gothic there...
- have been termed "crazy vaults." They included the first examples of tierceron ribs in Gothic vaulting. The work at Lincoln influenced later work, which...
- Alexander the Mason, who developed the nave's more elaborate, but symmetrical tierceron vaulting, the crossing vaulting, Galilee Porch and western facade screen...