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Early photographs of the interior show a high, cross-vaulted space, like the library at the University Club.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2010

The village even has its own truffle museum located in a medieval castle, with cross-vaulted ceilings and 16th century fresco remnants.

From Time Magazine Archive

It has a nave two bays in length, the first cross-vaulted, and the second with a dome enclosed within an octagonal drum, and with a barrel-vaulted presbytery before the apse.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

The other bays are cross-vaulted, and there are several round-headed windows.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

The principal chamber of the presbytery was cross-vaulted and divided into two by a low round arch supported on slender double columns with capitals fantastically carved.

From Via Crucis by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)