barrel vault

English

barrel vault

Noun

barrel vault (plural barrel vaults)

1. (architecture) A simple roof having a curved, often semicircular cross section; used to span large distances in railway stations, churches, etc. Usually supported on columns.
2. (roofing) A building profile featuring a rounded profile to the roof on the short axis, but with no angle change on a cut along the long axis.

Translations

architecture

• Catalan: volta de canó f
• Dutch: tongewelf (nl) n
• Finnish: tynnyriholvi
• Galician: bóveda de canón (gl) f
• German: Tonnengewölbe (de) n
• Italian: volta a botte f
• Norwegian: tønnehvelv n
• Spanish: bóveda de cañón (es) f
• Swedish: tunnvalv (sv) n

See also

• barrel roof