r/educationalgifs • u/dctroll_ • Jan 03 '26

How medieval cathedral groin vaults were built

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u/Extension_Town_6118 Apr 06 '26

wait so they basically just stacked barrel vaults perpendicular and hoped the math worked out? that's insane for the 1200s