Foundation-stone Sentence Examples

The foundation-stone of the Anglican cathedral, on an elevated site in Ann Street, was laid by the Prince of Wales (as duke of York) in 1901.

The foundation-stone was laid on the 20th of May 1880, and on the 3rd of November 1887 the building, so far as then completed, was consecrated.

The foundation-stone of HongKong University was laid in March 1910, the buildings being the gift of Sir Hormusjee Mody, a colonial broker.

On the r8th of April 1506 the foundation-stone of the new St Peter's was laid; 120 years later, on the r8th of November 1626, Urban VIII.

He did much to improve and beautify Rome; he laid the foundation-stone of 'St Peter's (April 18, 1506); he founded the Vatican museum; and he was a friend and patron of Bramante, Raphael and Michelangelo.

As superintendent of public buildings he enriched Paris with boulevards, quays and triumphal arches; he relaid the foundation-stone of the Louvre, and brought Bernin from Rome to be its architect; and he erected its splendid colonnade upon the plan of Claude Perrault, by whom Bernin had been replaced.

For it is against a solid rock, the foundation-stone of the Church, that you have opposed yourself in opposing me.

The foundation-stone of a museum was laid by the prince of Wales in 1905.

Prince's dock, of which the foundation-stone was laid by the prince of Wales in 1875, was opened in 1879, and is 1460 ft.

South of the Victoria dock, the foundation-stone of the Alexandra dock, the largest in India, was laid by the prince of Wales in 1905.

The new, now the old, buildings at Magdalen were begun the same year, the foundation-stone being laid in the middle of the high altar on the 5th of May 1474 (Wood, 207).