The solution employed in England was to stilt the transverse ribs, maintaining a horizontal central line to the roof like that of a barrel vault. The diagonal ribs could also be depressed, a solution used on the sexpartite vaults at both the Saint-Étienne, (Abbaye-aux-Hommes) and Sainte-Trinité, (Abbaye-aux-Dames) at Caen, France, in the late 11th and early 12th centuries.
The solution employed in England was to stilt the transverse ribs maintaining a horizontal central line to the roof like that of a barrel vault The diagonal ribs could also be depressed a solution used on the sexpartite vaults at both the Saint-Étienne (Abbaye-aux-Hommes) and Sainte-Trinité (Abbaye-aux-Dames) at Caen France in the late 11th and early 12th centuries