Fan vault

[2] The largest fan vault in the world can be found in King's College Chapel, Cambridge.

[4] Harvey (1978) hypothesises that the east cloister at Gloucester was finished under Thomas de Cantebrugge from the hamlet of Cambridge, Gloucestershire, who left in 1364 to work on the chapter house at Hereford Cathedral (also thought to have been fan vaulted on the basis of a drawing by William Stukeley).

[5] The other three parts of the cloister at Gloucester were begun in 1381, possibly under Robert Lesyngham.

Other examples of early fan vaults exist around Gloucester, implying the activity of several 14th century master masons in that region.

In between sequences of conoids, flat central spandrels fill the space.

Fan vaulting over the nave at Bath Abbey , England: made from local Bath stone, this is a Victorian restoration (in the 1860s) of the original roof of 1608