Demolished Sentence Examples

It was demolished in 1897, the defences being antiquated.

In modern times the ramparts have been demolished, and new wide streets pierced through the town.

The abbey was demolished in 1850.

The strong castle built by Robert de Romille in the time of the Conqueror was partly demolished in 1648, but was restored by the countess of Pembroke.

The town walls were in the main demolished towards the end of the 19th century.

It is almost invariably square; the only examples of round campanili in this part of Italy are to be found at Ravenna and at Caorle to the east of Venice; while inside Venice itself the solitary exception to the square plan was the campanile of San Paternian, built in 999 and now demolished, which was a hexagon.

In 1853 the Fort of the Twenty-four Hours was demolished, and in the angle specified by Haedo the skeleton of Geronimo was found.

This interesting historical monument was demolished by the Greek authorities in 1874, notwithstanding the protests of Penrose, Freeman and other scholars.

In 1757 Chandernagore was bombarded by an English fleet under Admiral Watson and captured; the fortifications and houses were afterwards demolished.

The tempestuous weather, moreover, created serious damage at most of the landing-places, where solidly constructed jetties were in some instances completely demolished by the seas.

The castle, which overhung the Marne, was sold in 1791 to be demolished.

The citadel, erected in 1565, has been almost entirely demolished.

The latter were demolished in 1734.

Several public buildings were so foul that they were demolished and burned.

The keep of the castle dates from 1490, and much of the original building was demolished in 1689, a few years after its siege by Cromwell.

The town was destroyed by an earthquake on the 16th-17th of December 1902, when 5000 persons perished and 16,000 houses were demolished.

The ramparts, which enclose the city on all sides except towards the port (where they were demolished in 1872), have a circuit of a little more than 4 m.

On the south side of the town pleasant gardens extend along the old Singel, or outer canal, and there is a large open space, the Van der Werf Park, named after the burgomaster, Pieter Andriaanszoon van der Werf, who defended the town against the Spaniards in 1574 This open space was formed by the accidental explosion of a powdership in 1807, hundreds of houses being demolished, including that of the Elzevir family of printers.

Their hostility to the Huguenots forced on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and their war against their Jansenist opponents did not cease till the very walls of Port Royal were demolished in 1710, even to the very abbey church itself, and the bodies of the dead taken with every mark of insult from their graves and literally flung to the dogs to devour.

The House of Lords contains tapestry dating from 1733, and remains in its original condition, but the octagonal House of Commons was demolished by the bank directors, and replaced with a cash-office.

During the Civil War the greater part of the castle and of the town walls (which with their four gates were until then well preserved) were demolished by the inhabitants in order to prevent the town being either garrisoned or besieged.

In 1802 the White House, in a state of disrepair, was partially demolished.

Equally obsolete is the old line of fortifications which formerly marked the limits of the city south and east and has now been partly demolished.

During the Civil War, the then lord Powis, a royalist, was imprisoned, and the castle was later demolished.

The old fortifications, of which the Porte de Valenciennes (15th century) is the chief survival, have been demolished to make room for boulevards and public gardens.

Of the ancient kasbah nothing but the walls remain, the old buildings having been demolished to make way for barracks for the French troops.

East of the mosque, which dates from the 17th century, and just without the inner city walls, here demolished, is the Protestant cemetery of St George, used during the 17th, 18th and the greater part of the 19th centuries.

It has long been demolished and the new barracks of the Grenadier regiment have been erected on the site.

But the ramparts were long ago demolished; only natives, Malays, Arabs and Chinese live here, and the great European houses have either fallen into decay or been converted into magazines and warehouses.

General Daendels, who was governor from 1808 to 1811, caused the ramparts of the town to be demolished, and began to form the nucleus of a new city at Weltevreden.

The former citadel (now gaol), built by the Pisans, was demolished and re-erected by Lorenzo de' Medici.

Luzio, whose account in Profili e bozzetti storici (Milan, 1906) gives the latest information on the subject, has demolished Amante's arguments.

Only the coast line was left to the Latin kingdom, with a free passage to Jerusalem; and Ascalon was demolished.

A part of the walls of the Castro and many of the houses within it were shaken down by the earthquake of 1894; part has been demolished in the widening of the Euripus.

Behind it is a Gothic tower, the only relic of the old town hall, demolished in 1820.

In 1637 the roof-tree of the choir perished during a gale, and three years later the rich timber screen was demolished.

In 1814 it was blockaded by the allies and capitulated, whereupon its fortifications were demolished.

The Little Church (15th century) was demolished in 1883, except for a portion of the nave and the old tower and steeple, from which the bells curiously project.

It was brought into prosperity by Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, and was granted a charter in 1613; but was partly demolished on the occasion of a fight between the English and Irish in 1641.

The Briihl palace, built in 1737 by Count Briihl, the minister of Augustus II., has been in some measure demolished to make room for the new Standehaus (diet house), with its main facade facing the Hofkirche; before the main entrance there is an equestrian statue (1906) of King Albert.

The fortifications were demolished in 1813.

The house, La Grotte, which Gibbon inhabited 1783-1793, and on the terrace of which he completed (1787) his famous history, was demolished in 1896 to make room for the new post office that stands on the Place St Francois.

In 1792 the building was demolished, and for a period of some eighteen years there was nothing of the kind.

It was a military post of importance in Elizabeth's reign, but its fortifications were for the most part demolished by order of Cromwell.

It was probably built about 860 and demolished about 1400.

The castle was demolished in the 19th century, but two towers (restored in 1879) are standing.

The south side, running nearly due east and west, is about equally long, if measured from the end of the west wall to the point which the east wall would touch when produced due south in a straight line from the place at which it was demolished to make way for " Nero's house."

At the seaward end of the Rambla is a large ancient structure, the Atarazanas or Arsenals, which was finished about 1243, and partly demolished in the 19th century to give a better view to the promenade.

The after control was demolished by a shell which killed everyone in it.

There are slight ruins of an ancient castle of the Ormondes, demolished in 1649 by Cromwell.

The arches of Porta Nuova are almost the last trace of the inner circuit, constructed after the destruction of the city by Frederick Barbarossa, to which also belonged the Porta dei Fabbri, demolished in 1900.

Visconti (1355-1378) and demolished in 1447 by the populace after the death of Filippo Maria Visconti.

In 1855 it was bombarded by the Anglo-French fleet, and after that the Russians demolished the fortifications.

The building remained till 1784, when it was nearly demolished to provide stones for a new parish church.

It was surrounded by a wall, which is still preserved for more than two-thirds of its extent, but no traces of this are found on the side towards the sea, and there is no doubt that on this side it had been already demolished in ancient times, so as to give room for the free extension of houses and other buildings in that direction.'

The explanation is that it follows the line of the demolished city wall.

It was formerly fortified, but all the ramparts (save the Fort Carre, built by Vauban) have now been demolished, and a new town is rising on their site.

As a presbyter, he won high reputation by his preaching at Antioch, more especially by his homilies on The Statues, a course of sermons delivered when the citizens were justly alarmed at the prospect of severe measures being taken against them by the emperor Theodosius, whose statues had been demolished in a riot.

Certain it is that Angelico was staying in Rome in the first half of 1447; and he painted in the Vatican the Cappella del Sacramento, which was afterwards demolished by Paul III.

In 1816 the fortifications, which had been razed by Frederick the Great after the Seven Years' War, were restored and strengthened, and as a fortress of the second rank it remained the chief military place of Westphalia down to 1873, when the works were finally demolished.

The fortifications, erected in 1 755 and strengthened in 1816, were demolished in 1882.

The city walls, begun in 1671 and completed about 1740, were almost entirely demolished between 1863 and 1880, only a few insignificant remnants having survived the American military occupation of 1899-1902; but it is still usual to speak of the "intramural" and the "extramural" city.

He had the satisfaction of carrying out the decree which ordered that all the statues of Antony should be demolished, and thus " the divine justice reserved the completion of Antony's punishment for the house of Cicero" (Plutarch).

After the victory the walls were demolished, and likewise those of Baalbek, Damascus, Jerusalem and other towns.

Abbas, however, publicly renounced all pretension to the Caliphate, and the whole army accepted Motasim, who immediately had the fortifications of Tyana demolished and hastened back to Bagdad, where he made his public entry on the 20th of September 833.

In the old town, with its partly demolished fortifications, houses, shops and warehouses are more closely packed and the streets are narrower than in most East Indian towns, and, although a considerable number of Europeans live in this quarter, the outlying quarters, such as Simpang (where is the government house) and Tuntungan, are preferable for residence.

In1877-1884the old town walls were demolished, a promenade and gardens taking their place, and since then a new quarter has grown up on the south side with a fine open place called the Emperor Charles's Plain.

The earliest part of the church demolished in 1881, however, did not date farther back than the 15th century.

His statues were broken, his name everywhere erased, and his golden house demolished; yet, in spite of all, no Roman emperor has left a deeper mark upon subsequent tradition.

In the following month Lord Derby regained it for the Royalists, but Colonel Ashton soon retook it and demolished the works.

The castle erected by Antonio da Sangallo the younger has been demolished.

It was, however, so often captured by the English that it became a menace rather than a protection, and the townsfolk demolished it in 1409.

The castle was demolished in 1529 when the province came under Burgundian rule.

Its fortifications and citadel were demolished by Louis XIII.

The castle was frequently attacked and on several occasions more or less demolished, in the 12th and 13th centuries by the Welsh under the princes of Dynevor.

The Aragonese castle and the Genoese walls have been demolished in recent times, and the town has a modern aspect, with spacious streets and squares.

The capacious bay, formerly known as the Bay of St Lawrence from a religious house long since demolished, is protected by a sandbank that ends here, and is hence known as the Tail of the Bank.

Towards the land the city is surrounded by a semicircular fosse or canal, and was at one time regularly fortified; but the ramparts have been demolished and are replaced by fine gardens and houses, and only one gateway, the Muiderpoort, is still standing.

It is surrounded by beautiful walks and fine gardens, and although its old walls and towers have now been demolished, many of its ancient buildings remain to form a picturesque contrast with the signs of modern industry.

It consists of small squares and narrow streets, with a free grammar school (1665), market hall, assize hall, county gaol, &c. The so-called parliament house (1404) of Owen Glendower's members has been demolished.

The old tolbooth, in which William Maitland of Lethington, Queen Mary's secretary, poisoned himself in 1573, to avoid execution for adhering to Mary's cause, was demolished in 1819.

As an important outpost in the upper valley of the Teifi, Lampeter possessed a castle, which was demolished by Owen Gwynedd in the 12th century.

From the leaning tower of Pisa he afforded to all the professors and students of the university ocular demonstration of the falsehood of the Peripatetic dictum that heavy bodies fall with velocities proportional to their weights, and with unanswerable logic demolished all the time-honoured maxims of the schools regarding the motion of projectiles, and elemental weight or levity.

The fortifications with which it was formerly surrounded have been for the most part demolished.

Till 1860, when its works were demolished, Julich ranked as a fortress of the second class.

We are not sure whether the station has been demolished or still exists.

Ashford's shed closed to steam in 1963, but until 1968 was used for stabling diesel locomotives, thereafter being demolished.

Unfortunately, Nelsons birthplace was demolished just after his father's death and replaced by the present rectory.

From the picturesque ancient mansion ruthlessly demolished 1800 to give a site to Gillespies paltry Hospital.

A small cottage built below this bridge was also partly demolished.

Each argument that you can propose in favor of budgeting is systematically demolished by this book.

The two smallest towers are still entire, but one of the others is almost completely demolished, and the other much dilapidated.

In the Victorian era it was partly demolished to provide building material for a garden folly in the manor grounds.

I can still remember the glee with which we demolished some of the silly recommendations of one particular Select Committee.

The demolished parts were taken to build the grotto.

The two post mills were demolished over 100 years ago, and the tower mill is now hemmed in by trees and bungalows.

It became a manor house in the 16th century, was rebuilt in 1832, but eventually demolished early in the 20th century.

The old house was demolished and some elements, including the carved oak mantelpiece and paneling were incorporated into the new building.

The rectory gate house could have been demolished at the time the new mermaid was built.

However, a large number of the distilleries mothballed in 1900 remain closed to this day, and in some cases have been demolished.

Will end in the area where homes would be demolished if a 3rd runway went ahead.

The recently demolished Gaumont Cinema occupied the site of the Agricultural Hall.

In May 1998 the Old Show Ground was demolished for supermarket development and the club switched to Glanford Park, a new purpose-built stadium.

The ratiocinative parts of the Phaedo thrown into syllogisms may be easily demolished by a hostile logician; but in the dialogue as a whole there is a subtle spirit and cumulative force which logic can neither seize nor answer " (Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, p. 226, 1876).

Sanitation and public hygiene received a potent impulse from the cholera epidemic of 1884, many of the unhealthiest quarters in Naples and other cities being demolished and rebuilt, with funds chiefly furnished by the state.

But, confining ourselves to what is here our special business, it is to be remarked that perhaps the heaviest blow dealt at these strange doctrines was that delivered by Rennie, who, in an edition of Montagu's Ornithological Dictionary (pp. xxxiii.-1v.), published in 1831 and again issued in 1833, attacked the Quinary System, and especially its application to ornithology by Vigors and Swainson, in a way that might perhaps have demolished it, had not the author mingled with his undoubtedly sound reason much that is foreign to any question with which a naturalist, as such, ought to deal - though that herein he was only following the example of one of his opponents, who had constantly treated the subject in like manner, is to be allowed.

The temple was still standing in 1676; some eight years later it was demolished by the Turks, and its stones built into a bastion; on the removal of the bastion in 1835 the temple was successfully reconstructed by Ross with the employment of little new material.

Some English strongholds, such as Alnwick, Chillingham, Ford and Naworth, have been modernized; others, like Norham, Wark and Warkworth, are picturesque ruins; but most of the Scottish fortresses have been demolished and their sites built over, or are now represented by grass-grown mounds.

The rubble on the right, which smoke can be seen emerging from, is the demolished SER station building.

The box closed on 19th July 1965, and was demolished in the late sixties/early seventies.

The station here has been demolished although the solum of the line remains intact.

There is also a station site, we are not sure wether the station has been demolished or still exists.

The outlet mall was enclosed and slowly fell out of favor with Kenosha shoppers in light of newer outdoor facilities such as Pleasant Prairie Premium Outlets, before it was demolished in 1996.

These outlets can be a great source for beautiful hardwood flooring that has been removed from older homes, as many outlet owners rescue quality flooring before a home is demolished.

If the rides cannot be sold or are too decrepit, they may simply be demolished and scrapped, though some parts - entrance signs, roller coaster trains, etc. - may end up as collectors' items in museums or private collections.

Experiencing rides that are out of reach geographically or financially, or those that have been demolished.

Rumors abound that the ride will be demolished, but no judgment has yet been passed on its fate.

The majority of Geauga Lake and Six Flags Ohio rides and attractions were either demolished or sold to other amusement parks worldwide.

The park encompassed Coney Island’s former grounds, but most of the existing rides were demolished.

Dilapidated houses are demolished and those that still are habitable are rehabilitated.

Since the 1970s, before the motel was demolished, guests reported that on very rainy nights they experienced hearing a loud knocking on the front door accompanied by the sound of a man sobbing.

Today, Ohio University has converted the main building into a museum and offices, while the other buildings that made up The Ridges have long since been demolished.

One wonders if paranormal activity will continue as it has on so many other sites where buildings have been demolished, but spirits remain.

When funding efforts fell through, the owner attempted to have the building condemned so that it could be demolished.

When Everwood was cancelled in 2006, its warehouse sets were demolished and film crews left the area.

The old ramparts and bastions (excluding the circuit of the citadel of 1591, now in great part demolished, in the south-east) make an enceinte of about 41 m., but the enclosed area is not all occupied by streets and houses.

After the capture, Titus ordered the Temple to be demolished and the fortifications to be levelled, with the exception of the three great towers at Herod's palace.

It was gradually consummated by the military and commercial settlements of the Portuguese, and subsequently by the Spaniards, who established themselves formally in Montevideo under Governor Zavala of Buenos Aires in 1726, and demolished the rival Portuguese settlement in Colonia in 1777.

The town was strongly fortified by medieval walls, which have to some extent been demolished.

Macbeth is said to have slain Duncan in the first structure that gave its name to Castlehill, which was probably the building demolished in 1297 by the adherents of Wallace.

But as little had been accomplished when the superior court met at Hillsboro, Orange county, in September 1770, the Regulators became desperate again, whipped the chief offender, Colonel Edmund Fanning, and demolished his residence.

Breaks were filled up with cubes obtained from fragments of contemporary mosaics previously demolished.

In the middle ages it was a strong fortress defending the confines of Piedmont towards Liguria, but the fortifications on the rock above the town were demolished in 1800 by the French, to whom it had been ceded in 1796.

This so exasperated him that he completely demolished its fortifications, although he seems to have spared the lives of the inhabitants as far as lay in his power.

In 1799 it was taken of ter ten days' bombardment by the Austrian and Russian armies, and, in 1800, of ter the victory of Marengo, the French demolished the fortifications.

In the neighbourhood are the ruins of the Isenburg, demolished in 1226.

In 1646 General Laugharne took and demolished the castle in the name of the parliament, and in 1649 Oliver Cromwell resided at Carmarthen on his way to Ireland.

By the terms of the peace of Utrecht (1713) the fortifications were demolished and its harbour filled up, a sacrifice demanded by England owing to the damage inflicted on her shipping by Jean Bart and other corsairs of the port.

The old outworks have been partly demolished and replaced by modern forts, while suburbs have grown up round the inner walls and bastions.

Owing to the great changes effected during the latter part of the 19th century, some of the old markets were demolished and the system of centralizing trade was not wholly revived.

The fort was dismantled in 1860, and demolished in 1890 to provide room for the railway and the station.

The castle never had any military history, and having been seized by parliament together with the other royal possessions, and being considered of insufficient importance for repair, was demolished during the Commonwealth.

In the centre of this part of Pretoria is Church Square, so named from the Dutch Reformed Church which stood in it, but was demolished in 1905.

The Syracusans' work was destroyed by a prompt and well-executed attack; and a second counter-work carried across marshy ground some distance to the south of Epipolae and near to the Great Harbour was also demolished after a sharp action, in which Lamachus fell, an irretrievable loss.

For a long time St James's Hall (demolished in 1905) between Regent Street and Piccadilly was the chief concert hall.

Another castle, built in the same century, on the east bank, was held direct by the lords of Glamorgan, as the westernmost outpost of their lordship. It was frequently attacked by the Welsh, notably in 1231 when it was taken, and the town demolished by Llewelyn ab Iorwerth.

The same was the case with the Porta dei Leoni, another rather similar triumphal arch on the east of the city, and with a third arch, the Arco dei Gavi, demolished in 1805.

Many of these have been demolished and government offices erected on their sites; others have given place to new streets and houses.

It was surrounded with walls and fortifications in the time of Rudolf of Habsburg, but these were demolished in modern times.

At the same time the ancient graveyards round the city were swept smooth and levelled; obstructions were demolished, outworks constructed, and the defences generally renovated.

The line of the ancient ramparts, demolished in 1830, is now only marked by the Singel, or outer canal, which surrounds the oldest part of the city, with pleasant gardens and promenades laid out on the inside.

In 355 B.C., he spoke the fatal word, which, a seeondor rather a thirdtime, demolished the essentially unsound power of Athens.

The fortifications begun in 1658 were finally demolished under Frederick the Great in 1745, and the Neue Friedrichstrasse, the Alexander-strasse and the Wall-strasse were laid out on their site.

The old manor house, now demolished, was Catherine's residence; and had been, according to tradition, the place of the retirement of Catherine of Aragon after her divorce from Henry VIII.

On the departure of the German troops in 1852 the Danes demolished the fortifications on the north side.

Sir Richard Child, afterwards earl of Tylney, built the splendid mansion of Wanstead House in 1715 (demolished in 1822), in which the prince of Conde and others of the Bourbon family resided during the reign of the first Napoleon.

They found many of the houses of the English residents demolished and others damaged by fire.

The house of correction occupies the site of Frederick Barbarossa's castle, which was demolished by the French in 1713.

In 1608 the British built a factory on Wai, which was demolished by the Dutch as soon as the English vessel left.

To the left of Malabar hill lies Back Bay, with a promontory on its farther shore, which marks the site of the old Bombay Fort; its walls are demolished, and the area is chiefly devoted to mercantile buildings.

Again the county was thrown into the barons' war when Bedford Castle, seized from the Beauchamps by Falkes de Breaute, one of the royal partisans, was the scene of three sieges before it was demolished by the king's orders in 1224.

The castle was demolished in the beginning of the 19th century and the remains are slight.

Before the valves in the dam were closed, the village of Llanwddyn, the parish church, and many farmsteads were demolished.

Their allies fared less well; the rebel earls were subjected to heavy fines, and their strongholds were demolished.

All those time-worn medieval institutions which no longer allowed free scope to private or public life were demolished by the legists in favor of the monarchy.

In 1807 it was captured by the French, who demolished the fortifications.

The church of the Holy Trinity, mainly Perpendicular, was also partly demolished during the Civil War, but was restored by the countess of Pembroke.

There were, however, but few prisons in France adapted for the cellular system, and the process of reconstruction has been slow, In 1898 the old Paris prisons of Grande-Roquette, Saint-Plagie and Mazas were demolished, and to replace them a large prison with 1500 cells was erected at Fresnes-ls-Rungis.

The church of the Holy Trinity (built in 1870) stands at the southern end of the rue d'Isly near the site of the demolished Fort Bab Azoun.

Old types of vessels have been sold or demolished, and replaced by newer types.

They were demolished, but as no troops were landed immediately a fresh riot and massacre ensued.

The medieval building was demolished late in the 18th century, and the present castle erected in mingled Gothic and Moorish styles.

The castle built here in the first half of the 14th century was demolished in 1819.

The famous castle of Sluis, built in 1385, was partly blown up by the French in 1794, and totally demolished in 1818.

The old forts and bastions of the city have been demolished, but the two linked fortresses, the Oberhaus and the Niederhaus, are still extant.

Much of the old town has been demolished, and its general character now is that of a flourishing French city.

The Greeks held out for a considerable time, but had finally to surrender, probably from want of food, to Simon Maccabaeus, who demolished the Acra and cut down the hill upon which it stood so that it might no longer be higher than the Temple, and that there should be no separation between the latter and the city.

But his successors did not act with similar leniency; when the city was captured by Ptolemy I., king of Egypt, twelve years later, the fortifications were partially demolished and apparently not again restored until the period of the high priest Simon II., who repaired the defences and also the Temple buildings.

It was partly demolished in 1650, and in 1805 its reconstruction was begun by the marquess of Lansdowne, but was not completed.

The 1st earl of Hertford destroyed it in 1544, and after it was rebuilt the Reformers demolished it again, some of its stones being used in erecting the tolbooth.

The Acro-th The fortifications were again demolished by the polls of the g ?'

The ruins consist of an amphitheatre (now almost entirely demolished, but better preserved in the 18th century), a theatre, and a very fine aqueduct in opus reticulatum, the quoins of which are of various colours arranged in patterns to produce a decorative effect.