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919:"Britannia: Architecture of Gloucester Cathedral"
40:, England: made from local Bath stone, this is a
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945:"Pevsner Architectural Guides fan vault design"
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455:St. Mary's Church, Putney, Bishop West chapel
102:as a possible source of English influence in
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251:Church of St. John the Baptist, Cirencester
197:, the world's largest fan vault (1512–1515)
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166:) due to the manner in which English
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1019:Hereford Cathedral : A History
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889:List of architectural vaults
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416:St. George's Chapel, Windsor
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1548:Architecture in England
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599:Peterborough Cathedral
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110:Birth of the fan vault
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983:. London: Batsford.
925:on 30 November 2018
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881:Architecture portal
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725:Middlesex Guildhall
285:Eton College Chapel
164:Gothic architecture
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1503:Flushwork
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1420:Liverpool
1379:Windmills
1285:Brutalist
1275:Edwardian
1265:Victorian
747:Edinburgh
743:St John's
160:spandrels
153:Structure
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1524:Category
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1240:Carolean
1235:Jacobean
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406:cloister
305:pendants
265:, Oxford
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104:Aragon
92:conoid
84:lierne
1403:Other
1225:Tudor
695:Leeds
307:, by
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1430:Bath
1120:2014
1107:ISBN
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