Vaulting Sentence Examples

She let go, dropping into a heap on the ground then vaulting to her feet and running.

Three galleries with vaulting supported on columns lead from the three western portals to the second stage.

Inside, admire the delicate fan vaulting on the ceiling.

Several of the rooms occupied by the archaeological museum bear traces of the decorations executed under Galeazzo Maria and Lodovico it Moro, and one of them has a splendid ceiling with trees in full foliage, painted so as to cover the whole vaulting, ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci.

The Abbey contains some particularly fine stained glass, and superb fan vaulting.

The vaulting shows evidence of plank centering, and there is a mason's mark on the doorway.

The west front of the church stands to its full height and the south transept still retains its ribbed vaulting.

The great pillars of the crossing are the most substantial survivals, and we can see how they would have supported the vaulting.

Behind it is a larger church, which was begun for the Benedictines about I i 50, from the designs of a French architect, in imitation of the Cluniac church at Paray-le-Monial, but never carried beyond the spring of the vaulting.

In the interior, which contains beautifully carved stalls, a choir-screen in the flamboyant style and many other works of art, the most striking features are the height of the nave and the boldness of the columns supporting the vaulting.

The tower retains rare medieval features groin vaulting, timber roof structure, interior well and an underground dungeon.

The north chancel aisle, known as the Piper Choir, has quadripartite rib vaulting.

A few features Exeter Cathedral has the longest unbroken stretch of Gothic stone vaulting in the world.

Very large flat bosses with scenes dominate the quadripartite vaulting of the nave roof.

The first phase of this new building was the octagonal chapter-house with its elaborate vaulting and clustered central pillar.

They are like the pole used to lift the jumper to the bar in pole vaulting.

Porch has 2 bays of single chamfered rib vaulting.

The plan is a Greek cross with four octagonal towers supported on the barrel vaulting of the four arms of the cross.

The center piece of this large complex is a five story brick warehouse with quoins and internally cast-iron columns and fire proof brick vaulting.

Permission was given for dancing, archery, leaping, vaulting and other harmless recreations, and of "having of May games, Whitsun ales and morris dances, and the setting up of May-poles and other sports therewith used, so as the same may be had in due and convenient time without impediment or neglect of divine service, and that women shall have leave to carry rushes to church for the decorating of it."

The façade is fine, and the interior, divided into three naves by columns, with galleries over the aisles, has fortunately not been restored; the vaulting of the crypt has, however, been covered with modern stucco.

However, with Bishop King 's support gone, the vaulting of the nave could not be contemplated.

Macbeth 's fatal flaw of character was vaulting ambition....

A wooden vaulting horse was carried out every day to the same spot only around 30 meters from the wire.

The wooden roof becomes more elaborate here, almost the illusion of vaulting ribs.

Being part of a vaulting group is a lot of fun.

Obedience comes from consistent training, using the vaulting whip in a very meaningful way.

We are assured that within the Saxon crypt stone vaulting can be seen bridging the roots of the tree.

The vaulting of the nave and aisles and the beautiful cloisters were added in the 13th century.

The choir opens into a beautiful cloister, the massive vaulting of which is supported on heavy piers adorned with statuary, between which intervene slender columns arranged in pairs and surmounted by delicately carved capitals.

Behind the exchange is the great market-place, built on vaulting over a canal, and containing a bronze statue of Erasmus, who was born in Rotterdam in 1467.

Only the ground plan and the lower part of the western towers belong to the original building consecrated in IIIo; the remainder was mostly finished by 1181, but the west choir and the vaulting were built in the 13th century, the elaborate south portal was added in the 14th century, and the central dome has been rebuilt.

The façade is fine, and the interior, divided into three naves by columns, with galleries over the aisles, has fortunately not been restored; the vaulting of the crypt has, however, been covered with modern stucco.

The vaulting of the nave takes the form of a series of cupolas, and that of the choir and transept is similar.

But it is important to add that the permanent forts were old and conspicuous, and, except in a few cases where modernization had been actually begun, possessed only brick vaulting that was not proof against 6-in.

In the town itself there are no Roman remains; but there is a good Gothic cathedral in brick, and an interesting octagonal baptistery, attributed to the 8th or 9th century, the arches being supported by ancient columns, and the vaulting decorated with mosaics.

Its church of All Saints has a beautiful Perpendicular tower with rich vaulting within.

Begun in 1247, the work was interrupted in 1284 by the collapse of the vaulting of the choir, in 1573 by the fall of a too ambitious central tower, after which little addition was made.

He hesitated before vaulting to the ground, unable to explain the quickening of his heart or the sense that the woman's teal gaze - the color of the eyes of Karyan nobility - reminded him of the home he hadn't thought of in years.

The vaulting of the three portals is of exceptional depth owing to the projection of the lower storey of the facade.

The cathedral has a Romanesque Gothic portal of 1332 by a Roman marble worker named Deodatus, and the interior is decorated in the Baroque style, but still retains the pointed vaulting of 1154, introduced into Italy by French Benedictines; it contains a splendid silver antependium by the 15th-century goldsmith Nicolo di Guardiagrele (1433-48).

Of the apartments, all of the finest Gothic architecture, the chief are the refectory, divided down the centre by columns and lighted by large embrasured windows, and the knights' hall, a superb chamber, the vaulting of which is supported on three rows of cylindrical pillars.

In the interior, which is without transepts or aisles, the roodscreen and the choir-enclosure, which date from about 1500, are masterpieces of delicate sculpture; the vaulting and the walls are covered with paintings of the 15th and 16th centuries.

It contains five churches, one of which (St Nicholas), built in 1446-88, is a good example of the late Gothic style as developed in Saxony, with its spacious proportions, groined vaulting, and bare simple pillars.

The principal characteristics of this second period are the magnificent portals, rising sometimes, as in the mosque of sultan Hasan, to 80 or 90 ft., with elaborate stalactite vaulting at the top, and the deep stalactite cornices which crown the summit of the building.

The eastern portion of the vaulting, including the choir and one bay of the nave, has the older and simpler decorations; the rest of the nave has more elaborate painted ornament - foliage mixed with figures of Dominican saints, executed in the 15th century.

There is a fountain in the middle of this hall, and the roof - a dome honeycombed with tiny cells, all different, and said to number 5000 - is a magnificent example of the so-called " stalactite vaulting " of the Moors.