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Rh a circular vault on Gothic principles, or one in which the ribs could act in a Gothic way. The nearest approach to such a form, in a vault that may with any propriety be called a dome, occurs over the crossing of nave and transept in the old cathedral of Salamanca in Spain (Fig. 28). But this vault has a

28.—Interior of dome of Salamanca.

very different character from the imaginary one just described. It rises from the top of a high drum resting on pendentives, and is built on a system of salient converging ribs. The spaces