Cruciform Sentence Examples

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  • The church of All Saints is cruciform, with central tower and spire.

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  • The church df All Saints is a large cruciform building with low central tower.

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  • Its chief remains of antiquity are a square peel-tower and the cruciform church of St Andrew, of which part of the fabric is of pre-Conquest date, though the building is mainly Early English.

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  • It is beautifully placed near the river, and is a fine cruciform structure, partly Early English and partly Perpendicular, with a central tower and lofty octagonal spire.

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  • The church of St Peter, a large cruciform structure, exhibits all the Gothic styles, and earlier fragments are traceable.

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  • The abbey church of St Mary the Virgin is a stately cruciform building with central tower, the nave and choir having aisles and clerestory.

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  • It is cruciform, with a central tower, and has been so restored as to preserve its ancient beauty.

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  • The church of St Nicholas is a cruciform Perpendicular structure with a beautiful central tower, and some portions of earlier date.

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  • The church is cruciform and the altar stands beneath the eastern lantern arch, a fine rood screen separating off the choir, which was devoted to monastic use, while the nave was kept for the parishioners, in consequence of a dispute between the vicar and the monastery in 1499.

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  • The church of St James, situated in the older part of the town, is a cruciform Early English building, retaining, in spite of injudicious restoration, many beautiful details.

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  • The parish church, the finest in the county, is cruciform, and has the unique feature of transeptal towers, imitated from Exeter Cathedral.

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  • But in general we find that elaboration of imaginal structure is associated with degradation in the nature of the larva, cruciform and vermiform larvae being characteristic of the highest orders of the Hexapoda, so that unlikeness between parent and offspring has increased with the evolution of the class.

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  • The Square chapel, erected by the Congregationalists in 18J7, is a striking cruciform building with a tower and elaborate crocketed spire.

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  • The building was cruciform, but only the west front and part of the nave remain.

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  • The cruciform church of St Andrew has Norman and later portions; it is the burial-place of Henry Hallam the historian, and members of his family, including his sons Arthur and Henry.

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  • The frequency of blind passages and of circular chambers will be noticed, as well as the very large number of bodies in the cruciform recesses, apparently amounting in one in stance to nineteen.

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  • The cruciform cathedral, with a low pinnacled tower, stands on the site of a church which the English destroyed in 1071 (dedicated to, and perhaps founded, about 525, by St Deiniol).

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  • It is a fine cruciform structure of Decorated character, with a central tower 170 ft.

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  • The church of St Andrew is cruciform and full of fine details of late Norman, Early English and Decorated work.

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  • On this cliff also stands the parish church of St Mary and St Eanswith, a cruciform building of much interest, with central tower.

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  • St Saviour's in Southwark (q.v.), the cathedral church of the modern bishopric of Southwark, was the church of the priory of St Mary Overy, and is a large cruciform building mainly Early English in style.

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  • The modern Roman Catholic cathedral is Perpendicular in style and cruciform in plan.

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  • The prime object of interest is the cathedral of St Magnus, a stately cruciform red sandstone structure in the severest Norman, with touches of Gothic. It was founded by Jarl Rognvald (Earl Ronald) in 1137 in memory of his uncle Jarl Magnus who was assassinated in the island of Egilshay in 1115, and afterwards canonized and adopted as the patron saint of the Orkneys.

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  • The church of St Andrew is cruciform with a lofty tower.

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  • The church of St Mary is cruciform, with a low square tower, and is largely Early English, with some richly decorated windows in the chancel.

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  • The church of St Mary, a fine cruciform structure, Early English and later, with a lofty and richly ornamented central tower, was enlarged in the reign of Elizabeth.

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  • The cruciform parish church of St Marcelliana stands on a high cliff, west of the castle.

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  • It has also an orthodox bishop. The Roman Catholics, who constitute the majority of citizens, possess a lofty and beautiful cruciform cathedral, built entirely of stone and metal.

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  • The cruciform church of St Denys has a 14th-century south porch and tower.

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  • The cruciform church of St Mary, with a central tower and short spire, is in great part Early English, with Perpendicular additions; but considerable traces of a Norman building were revealed during a modern restoration.

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  • The church of St Mary and All Saints is a large and beautiful cruciform building principally of the Decorated period.

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  • The cathedral church, dedicated to its founder St Colman, a disciple of St Finbar of Cork, is a plain cruciform building mainly of the 14th century, with an earlier oratory in the churchyard.

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  • The church of St Mary and St Nicholas is a cruciform building in red sandstone, of the Decorated and Perpendicular periods, with a central octagonal tower.

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  • The church of St Oswald at Filey is a fine cruciform building with central tower, Transitional Norman and Early English in date.

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  • The church of St Mary is cruciform and mainly Perpendicular.

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  • The church of St Andrew is cruciform and had formerly a central tower; the existing western tower is of fine and ornate Perpendicular work.

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  • The church of the Holy Trinity, a fine cruciform structure in the Early Decorated style, was erected in 1865.

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  • The church, which is the only important relic of the foundation, is cruciform, with a low central tower.

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  • All Saints' church in South Lynn is a beautiful Decorated cruciform structure.

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  • The church of St Oswald is cruciform, Early English and later; a fine building' with a central tower and lofty octagonal spire.

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  • The Exhibition Buildings are situated on a hill in Carlton Gardens; they consist of a large cruciform hall surmounted by a dome and flanked by two annexes.

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  • The church of St John the Baptist is a perpendicular cruciform structure, consisting of chancel, nave of seven bays, aisles, transepts and lofty western tower.

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  • In the centre of this court stands the catholicon or conventual church, a square building with an apse of the cruciform domical Byzantine type, approached by a domed narthex.

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  • Opening from the western side of the cloister, but actually standing in the outer court, is the refectory (G), a large cruciform building, about loo feet each way, decorated within with frescoes of saints.

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  • The immense refectory, of the same cruciform shape as that of St Laura, will accommodate 500 guests at its 24 marble tables.

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  • The church (D) is cruciform, with a nave of nine bays, and a semicircular apse at either extremity.

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  • The buildings are completely ruined, but enough remains to enable us to identify the grand cruciform church (A), the cloister-court with the chapterhouse (B), the refectory (I), the kitchen-court with its offices (K, 0, 0) and the other principal apartments.

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  • They may be distinguished from the Neuroptera by the elongation of the head into a beak, the small prothorax, the narrow, elongate wings with predominantly longitudinal neuration, the presence of abdominal cerci and the cruciform larva.

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  • Among several churches in this quarter of the city is the cathedral (Gustavii Domkyrka), a cruciform church founded in 1633 and rebuilt after fires in 1742 and 1815.

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  • The church of St Peter and St Paul is cruciform, and as a whole Perpendicular in appearance, but retains a nave arcade and ornate tower-arches of the Early English period.

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  • The cathedral of St John the Baptist is a cruciform Renaissance building dating from 1492-1498, by the Florentine lIeo da Caprina.

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  • It is cruciform and has a massive central tower.

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  • The church of All Saints is a large cruciform structure, Norman, Early English and Perpendicular, with a central tower 80 ft.

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  • Among the Greeks cruciform shape sufficed of itself to hallow wood or stone.

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  • The church of St Mary is a handsome cruciform Perpendicular building.

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  • Notwithstanding the importance of Perth in former times, almost the sole relic of the past is the church of St John the Baptist, a large Decorated cruciform building surmounted by a massive square central tower 155 ft.

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  • In shape the church is cruciform, with double aisles to the nave and aisles to the transepts.

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  • It is cruciform, and in style mainly transitional Norman.

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  • The church or minster of St Cuthberga is a fine cruciform structure of various styles from Early Norman to Perpendicular, and consists of a central lantern tower, nave and choir with aisles, transepts without aisles, western or bell tower, north and south porches, crypt and vestry or sacristy, with the library over it.

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  • It contains bathing-stairs, tanks and wells, and a great number of handsome temples, of which the finest is that of Govind Deva, a cruciform vaulted building of red sandstone, dating from 1590.

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  • It is an Early English and Decorated cruciform building of red sandstone, with a tower surmounted by a beautiful open-work crown.

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  • The parish church of St Nicholas, an antiquated cruciform structure with curious Elizabethan work in the north transept, and monuments of the Chichester family, was originally a chapel or oratory dependent on a Franciscan monastery.

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  • It is a cruciform structure, with a dome, and the central nave is supported by fourteen Corinthian columns of white marble.

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  • The parish church of St Mary is an ancient cruciform edifice surmounted by a lofty tower; but extensive restoration was necessitated by a fire in 1854 which destroyed a considerable part of the town.

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  • Within the curtain stand the monastic buildings, a large garden and a cruciform chapel, with many curious old stone carvings, half hidden beneath whitewash.

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  • The abbey, cruciform, is in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, with pronounced French influence, due probably to the master mason John Morow, or Morreau, who, according to an inscription on the south transept wall, was born in Paris.

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  • St Mary's, the parish church, a cruciform structure, was founded by Robert Bruce, whose second wife died at Cullen.

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  • The parish church of St Lawrence is a cruciform Perpendicular building, with a lofty central tower, and a noteworthy east window, its 15th-century glass showing the martyrdom of St Lawrence.

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  • It stands boldly on the top of the hill, a cruciform structure dating from the 13th, but practically rebuilt in the 18th century, in accordance with its original plan.

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  • The church of St Elphin is a fine cruciform building with lofty central tower and spire.

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  • It is cruciform in shape, and the walls are built mainly of flint, but jambs and arches are formed of Roman bricks.

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  • The cruciform church of St Saviour is of the 14th and, 5th centuries, and contains a graceful rood-screen of the 16th century, an ancient stone pulpit and interesting monuments.

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  • Huge walls were erected at the edges of the ancient terrace, the courts of the temple were filled with houses and streets, and the ziggurat itself was curiously built over in a cruciform shape, and converted into an acropolis for the fortress.

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  • Besides a number of handsome modern churches, among which is a Roman Catholic cathedral, Portsmouth possesses, in the church of St Thomas a Becket, a fine cruciform building dating from the second half of the 12th century, in which the chancel and transepts are original, but the nave and tower date from 1698, and the whole was extensively restored in 1904.

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  • The church of St Augustine is a splendid cruciform building with central tower.

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  • Many Byzantine churches, both cruciform and basilican, have been excavated.

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  • It is cruciform, with a central tower, and has an eastern octagon which may have been copied from the corona of Canterbury Cathedral, as Eystein, archbishop of Trondhjem (1160-1188) and an active builder, was in England during his episcopate.

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  • Coity church, dating from the 14th century, is a fine cruciform building with central embattled tower in Early Decorated style.

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  • The church itself was a cruciform structure with a choir, nave and transepts, and a tower surmounting the centre of intersection.

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  • The ruins, beautifully placed on the bank of the river, embody a cruciform church, transitional Norman in style, and exhibiting the carving of the period in its highest development.

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  • The remains of the abbey chiefly consist of the shell of the beautiful Cruciform church, with a central saddleback tower rising from the transepts to a height of over 90 ft., and a graceful rose window at the west end of the nave.

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  • The church of St Mary is a fine cruciform building with western tower and spire.

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  • The church of St Mary, a large cruciform building, is primarily Early English, but has numerous additions of later dates.

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  • In 1050 Edward the Confessor took up the erection of a magnificent new church, cruciform, with a central and two western towers.

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  • St John's church, one of the most interesting in Wiltshire, is cruciform, with a massive central tower, based upon two round and two pointed arches.

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  • Fine Norman and Early English work is seen at Dunstable and Elstow, and the later style is illustrated by the large cruciform churches at Leighton Buzzard and at Felmersham on the Ouse above Bedford.

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  • St Mary's in Kirkgate, the parish church of South Leith, was founded in 1483, and was originally cruciform but, as restored in 1852, consists of an aisled nave and north-western tower.

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  • The principal building in the town is St Mary's church, a cruciform Decorated edifice in red sandstone, probably dating from the 13th century.

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  • It is a fine cruciform building, mainly of Early English date, with a crypt beneath the chancel.

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  • It is a cruciform structure of transitional Norman and later dates, its central tower having the upper storey set diagonally upon the lower.

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  • The elegant cruciform church of St George dates from the 14th and 15th centuries.

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  • The cruciform church measured 276 ft.

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  • The cruciform church of St Sampson is mainly Perpendicular, with a fine ornate tower, and an old rood-stone in its churchyard.

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  • The church of St Peter and St Paul is Perpendicular, a handsome cruciform structure with central tower, and has a fine carved roof of wood.

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  • The church of St Mary is a cruciform building with central tower, almost entirely of Decorated and Perpendicular work.

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  • It is cruciform with a lofty central tower and spire, the latter considered to be a direct development of the early spire of the cathedral at Oxford.

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  • His design for Thame broadly followed the popular cruciform or " square " design.

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  • They were being made to kneel cruciform in the sun until they collapsed, " he said.

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  • The appearance of this rugged medieval church of Saxon origin and originally cruciform matches the charm of its dedication.

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  • The church of St John the Baptist is Early English, but has numerous Decorated and Perpendicular additions; it is a cruciform building containing several interesting monuments.

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  • The Mantispidae are remarkable among the Neuroptera for their elongate prothorax, raptorial fore-legs and hypermetamorphic life-history, the young campodeiform larva becoming transformed into a fat cruciform grub parasitic on young spiders or wasp-larvae (see Mantis-Fly).

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  • St Nicholas church is a fine cruciform building founded in 1320, and containing monuments, and a bell, one of a peal, which appears to have been brought from Cavron in France, but how this happened is not known.

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  • St Michael's church is a cruciform Early English and Decorated building, with a picturesque embattled rectory adjoining.

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