The Cathedral
Season 1
Ep 4. Vaulting?A Look at Roofs
- TV-PG
- October 29, 2010
- 30 min
What's the best way to build a church's ceiling? This lecture takes you through the evolution of church roofs--from flat wood ceilings to stone barrel vaults to magnificent ribbed vaulting. Without these developments, you'll discover, there could have been no Gothic cathedrals.