Editing Gothic architecture (section)

=== Later vaults (13th–15th century) ===
In France, the four-part rib vault, with two diagonals crossing at the center of the traverse, was the type used almost exclusively until the end of the Gothic period. However, in England, several imaginative new vaults were invented which had more elaborate decorative features. They became a signature of the later English Gothic styles.{{Sfn|Harvey|1974|p=156}}

The first of these new vaults had an additional rib, called a [[tierceron]], which ran down the median of the vault.{{Sfn|McNamara|2017|p=126}} It first appeared in the vaults of the choir of [[Lincoln Cathedral]] at the end of the 12th century, then at Worcester Cathedral in 1224, and then the south transept of [[Lichfield Cathedral]].{{Sfn|Harvey|1974|p=156}}

The 14th century brought the invention of several new types of vaults which were more and more decorative.{{Sfn|Harvey|1974|p=157}} These vaults often copied the forms form of the elaborate tracery of the Late Gothic styles.{{Sfn|McNamara|2017|p=126}} These included the [[stellar vault]], where a group of additional ribs between the principal ribs forms a star design. The oldest vaults of this kind were found in the crypt of Saint Stephen at [[Westminster Palace]], built about 1320. A second type was called a reticulated vault, which had a network of additional decorative ribs, in triangles and other geometric forms, placed between or over the traverse ribs. These were first used in the choir of [[Bristol Cathedral]] in about 1311. Another late Gothic form, the [[fan vault]], with ribs spreading upwards and outwards, appeared later in the 14th century. An example is the cloister of [[Gloucester Cathedral]] ({{circa|1370}}).{{Sfn|Harvey|1974|p=156}}

Another new form was the skeleton vault, which appeared in the English [[Decorated style]]. It has an additional network of ribs, like the ribs of an umbrella, which criss-cross the vault but are only directly attached to it at certain points. It appeared in a chapel of [[Lincoln Cathedral]] in 1300.{{Sfn|Harvey|1974|p=156}} and then several other English churches. This style of vault was adopted in the 14th century in particular by German architects, particularly [[Peter Parler]], and in other parts of central Europe. Another exists in the south porch of the [[Prague Cathedral]]{{Sfn|Harvey|1974|p=156}}

Elaborate vaults also appeared in civic architecture. An example is the ceiling of the [[Vladislav Hall]] in [[Prague Castle]] in [[Bohemia]] designed by [[Benedikt Ried]] in 1493. The ribs twist and intertwine in fantasy patterns, which later critics called "Rococo Gothic".{{Sfn|Harvey|1974|p=170}}

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File:Perpendicular Vaulting.JPG|Lierne vaults of [[Gloucester Cathedral]] (Perpendicular Gothic)
File:Aisle.bristol.cathedral.arp.jpg|Skeleton-vault in aisle of [[Bristol Cathedral]] ({{circa|1311}}–1340)
File:Lincoln cathedral 13 Nave vault.jpg|Lincoln Cathedral – quadripartite form, with tierceron ribs and ridge rib with carved bosses
File:Bremer Dom Juli 2009 PD 060.JPG|Bremen Cathedral, Germany – north aisle, a reticular (net) vault with intersecting ribs
File:Wolfsberg Sankt Marein Pfarrkirche Mariae Himmelfahrt Netzrippengewoelbe 03092014 742.jpg|Church of the Assumption, [[Wolfsberg District|St Marein, Austria]] – star vault with intersecting lierne ribs
File:Bóvedas catedral Salamanca 40.jpg|Salamanca Cathedral, Spain Flamboyant S-shaped and circular lierne ribs. (16th–18th century)
File:Jacobins-11(1).jpg|[[Church of the Jacobins]], Toulouse – palm tree vault (1275–1292)
File:Peterborough Retrochoir fan vaulting.JPG|Peterborough Cathedral, retrochoir – intersecting fan vaults
File:Prag Vladislav-Saal.jpg|"Rococo Gothic" vaults of [[Vladislav Hall]] of [[Prague Castle]] (1493)
</gallery>