due to the manner in which English rib vaults were normally constructed. In an English rib vault, the courses are laid perpendicular to the rib while in France they are laid perpendicular to the wall.

Buildings with fan vaulting

Medieval and Early Modern

*Gloucester Cathedral, cloisters, earliest fan vaulting begun 1373 by Abbot Horton
*King's College Chapel, Cambridge,

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