The intersection of the cloister vault with a horizontal plane is a square.

Unlike the cloister vaults of western Europe, the corners are rounded off as they rise.

Mausoleum is octahedral and covered with a cloistered vault.

These domes were stronger, had a steeped angle, and could cover larger areas than the shallow cloister vaults.

The Praetorium was formerly topped by a square domed roof, likely a cloister vault, which had since collapsed.

The main area has barrel vaults with lunettes, while in the chapels on both sides of nave can be found cloister vaults.

Another type of vault not yet referred to is that of the Tabularium arcade where the Cloister vault was employed.

The first Lombard church to have a lantern tower, concealing an octagonal cloister vault, was San Nazaro in Milan, just after 1075.

Built on the foundations of the old San Carlo church, the oratory is a rectangular room with a cloister vault containing a series of triangular lunettes.

The earliest true domes found in Chinese tombs were shallow cloister vaults, called simian jieding, derived from the Han use of barrel vaulting.

The special architectural features are the cloister vault roof, the arched masonary decorations seen above many of the rectangular doors and windows, gable decoration above the central building.

Called domical vaults, cloister vaults, coved vaults, or gored domes, these are domes which maintain a polygonal shape in their horizontal cross section.

They created a modern museum building with a striking glazed domed roof in the form of an elongated cloister vault, composed of 1919 sheets of glass, which shapes the building's aesthetic appearance.

The earliest use of the octagonal cloister vault within an external housing at the crossing of a cruciform church may be at Acqui Cathedral in Acqui Terme, Italy, which was completed in 1067.

It is located a few hundred meters from the Abbey Church, outside the monastery walls, and is in the shape of a cross, with a vestibule on the north side, and four semicircular apses with semicircular domes around a square bay with a cloister vault.