Arch. [CROSS- 3 b.] A compound vault formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.

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1850.  Leitch, Müller’s Anc. Art, § 110. 80. The so-called sepulchre of Theron is remarkable on account of … the cross-vault in the interior.

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1879.  Sir G. G. Scott, Lect. Archit., I. 53. A series of cross gables over the cross vaults.

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  Hence Cross-vaulted a., Cross-vaulting.

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1848.  B. Webb, Continental Ecclesiol., 198. The choir is of one bay, crossvaulted.

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1876.  Gwilt, Archit., Gloss., Cross Vaulting.

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1888.  Freeman, in Archæol. Inst. Jrnl., XLV. 18. The flat ceiling for the main body and cross-vaulting for the aisles.

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