Small watch-towers, corbelledat the summits upon false machicolations, are adjacent to the larger.
Three courses of brick are corbelled to make the capping of the chimneys.
A very peculiarlycorbelled chancel arch—in shape like a bishop’s mitre—is, we should think, unique.
The towers are relieved with windows, simple arcade work, weather bands and strings, and oversailing and corbelled courses, and each has a gallery entrance.
The grey columns of the nave support the arcades and clerestory, and the light nave roof springs from angel-corbelled columns.
The west front is well designed, and surmounted by a corbelled bell turret, in which hang the only two bells the church possesses, though there would appear to be ample room in the empty tower for a chime.
The octagonal portion of the tower is continued downwards below the tower lights, when it becomes square, with corbelled angels at the four corners.
At the latter place is a well-defined acropolis, with massive walls in which are passages covered by stones successively overhanging or corbelled until they meet.
It is especially remarkable for its tower, which, rising 308 feet in the air, overhangs the street nearly 6 feet, its front wall resting on the face of the powerfully corbelled cornice of the palace.
Taylor found, in an underground chamber of the necropolis at Mugheir, the most primitive kind of vault that has ever been known--that called the corbelled vault.
The Chimney= is made the same as those for the other house, with the exception of the cap, which is built up of strips of cigar-boxes to represent corbelled brick (see Fig.
The fronts were often constructed of wood and plaster, and the upper floors were corbelled out over those beneath in the same fashion as had been customary for many years.
The windows generally are of few lights, the heads are pointed and cusped, the parapets are corbelled out and battlemented, and the whole work is of Late Gothic character without any trace of the new style in its decoration.
The whole pulpit is but small, not more than about five feet high including the corbelled support, and all carved with a minuteness and delicacy not to be surpassed and scarcely to be equalled by such a work as the tomb at Rouen.
The fourth story is finished by a globe-bearing parapet, within which the tower rises to another parapet much corbelled out.
Above the chapels are square-headed windows, and then a corbelled cornice.
Some distance from the top it becomes octagonal, with the square fortified by corbelled balconies projecting far out over the corners.
The whole bastion is fortified with great merlons, rising above a rope moulding, each, like those on the tower, bearing a shield carved with the Cross of the Order of Christ, and by round turrets corbelled out at the corners.
The west door has two Ionic columns on each side; a curious niche with corbelled sides rises above it to the lower cornice; and the church is lit by a square-headed window pierced through the upper part of each bay.
The corbelled support is made up of a great many different mouldings, most of them enriched in different ways.
The last and fourth, smaller than those below, is fortified with pointed merlons, and with a round corbelled turret at each corner.
The shafts of the eastern tower arches were corbelled off at some height from the ground, in order to allow the stalls of the first ritual choir to be set flat against the wall.
This shaft is corbelled off, and the corbel through carved in the shape of a lizard eating the leaves of a plant with berries thereon; it is a charming study.
The gable is filled with an arcade, the central member of which is corbelled off to make room underneath for three little lancet windows which light the parvise chamber within.
It springs from a corbelled head, from which foliate four cinquefoiled panels.
Two grand towers on the eastern face of the castle are octangular in plan, and one of them rises in three stages, each slightly within the other, and each finished with fine corbelled machicoulis.
On the south side is a very elaborate arcaded reredos and altar, and on the west a pulpit corbelled out from the wall.
There is a very rich late wooden pulpit, corbelled out from the wall, through which a door is pierced, and some rich woodwork is placed at the head of the steps leading to it.
Against the north wall is a very pretty example of a wheel of bells: this is all of wood, corbelled out from the wall, and is rung with a noisy jingle of silver bells at the elevation of the Host.
The two lower stages have windows of the commonest type, with pediments, whilst the upper stage has a rich open arcade, every third division of which has a picturesque projecting oriel, boldly corbelled forward from the face of the wall.
There are here some extremely well-managed overhanging passage-ways corbelled out from the walls, and various excellent features of detail.
These turrets are of stone, and between them is a parapet boldly corbelled out on machicoulis from the walls.
It is corbelled out from the north wall of the nave, and is of great size and height.
It is plain below, but has turrets picturesquely corbelled out on machicoulis over the centre of each side and at each angle.
Plate XVI Published by John Murray, Albemarle St. 1865] The old organ occupies the north tower, and is corbelled out boldly from the wall.
Up the angle formed by choir and transept runs a sort of excrescence of masonry that blossoms out, so to speak, into an extraordinary complication of corbelling near the top, and is itself corbelled away at the bottom.
It has been modernised, but the three apses are untouched externally, crowned with a corbelled arcuated cornice, the centre one being the largest.
A string withcorbelled arches below divides the stories, and the square portion terminates with a balustrade in the usual manner.
Along the aisle roof a carved cornice runs, and above the trefoiled pointed clerestory windows is an arched corbelled cornice.
A cornice of corbelled arches crowns the nave wall.
The lowest story has also two windows on each side, but beneath three corbelled arches.
The side walls are divided into five spaces by piers; an arched corbelled cornice terminating in mouldings runs along them, and returns up the slope of the east wall.
An octagonal tower of two storeys rises above the corbelled eaves.
A richly corbelled cornice crowns the structure, above which a spire was projected by Giotto, but never carried out.
This same juxtaposition of the two also occurs on a slab which closed the top of a corbelled chamber at Collorgues in Gard.
In this case they were corbelled as far as possible and the open space still left was covered with long flat slabs.
The Treasury of Atreus at Mycenæ with its corbelled circular chamber and long rectangular corridor seems very little removed, except in size and finish, from the tombs of Gavr' Inis and Lough Crew.
In each case we see a type of construction based on the use of large orthostatic slabs, sometimes surmounted by courses of horizontal masonry, with either a roof of horizontal slabs or a corbelled vault.
A Giant's Tomb consists of a long rectangular chamber of upright slabs roofed bycorbelled masonry (Fig.
The smaller are of truncated conical shape, the circular chamber being entered by a low door and having a corbelled roof.
The lower part is boldly corbelled out and the junction of the octagon with the pier shafts is well managed, but the upper open-panelled part is rather too definitely cut off from the lower by the battlemented cornice.
The other angles have narrow buttresses running up to circular bartizans boldly corbelled out from the battlements.
Beyond this the only very striking feature is the pulpit, which is corbelled out from the south wall about midway in its length.
There is an interesting monument in the south-east chapel, corbelledout from the wall and decorated with sculpture and painting.
In a back street in the village I found a house the balconies around which were corbelled forward on finely moulded beams, which, judging by the moulding, could hardly be of later date than the commencement of the fourteenth century.
At the west end are some fine monuments of stone and marble boldly corbelled out from the wall, adorned with good carving of foliage, and angels looking out from circles.
They are, as we shall see, of all dates, and even when developed to a great size, are still corbelled in the same way out of the walls.
Above the porch, but independent of it, is a lofty monumental pinnacle corbelled out from the wall, and richly sculptured with crocketed pinnacles and gablets.
In this case the monument is supported on a large slab of stone corbelled forward and balanced upon the top of a thin wall over the archway which leads into the churchyard of San Pietro.
The third is corbelled out from the wall, and the face of the monument is covered with sculpture, that of the figures being very inferior in style to that of the foliage enrichments.
The cornices are very marked, and those in the clerestory have the common and ungraceful corbelled arcading in brick, to which I have a special antipathy.
They are generally high tombs corbelled out from the walls, with arched canopies over them, inclosing paintings.
The interior is remarkable on account of the fine scale on which it is built, and for the large number of interesting monuments corbelled out from its walls.
The simple groining of the Frari is entirely executed in brick, and springs in the aisles from pilasters corbelled out of the walls midway in height, just as in Sta.
Above these rich and delicate canopies, with foliage and fan-tracery springing from corbelled heads, runs an exquisitely sculptured frieze.
Immediately above the carving, at the intersection of the main arches, is a corbelled head, from which rises a triple vaulting-shaft with foliated capitals, on a line with the base of the clerestory.
Its heavy supporting bracket is deeply and handsomely corbelled out, and at each angle is a slim colonette, delicately carved.
Away up on one angle of this tower is an imitation sentry-box, battlemented and supported by corbelled brackets.
The peaked roof, which is modern, is surrounded by open, pointed arches corbelled out from the wall below, and finished with plain battlements.
Prominent in our view rises the gray limestone tower, whose rugged, time-worn walls rise solidly to the corbelled battlements.
Little remains of the fabric save the principal tower, the base of which is circular in form, the upper works being corbelled out and fashioned into an octagon.
The original gateway, with its double arch, is flanked by tall round towers pierced with loopholes for archery, and is crowned by corbelled battlements.
Overhead a gangway ran around the inner face of the wall, which is provided with lancet-holes for the use of archers, and is crowned with the usual corbelled battlements.
These towers are pierced with small but well-proportioned lancet-windows, apparently of Edwardian date, and the corbelled battlements are carried forward above the gateway, to form a couloir for pouring down molten lead upon the foe.
The massive walls are corbelled out beneath the eaves of the roof, which is pitched at a steep angle, giving the old structure a picturesque appearance.
In many places the corbelled battlements were demolished or mutilated.
The pendentives, like all pendentives that could be examined, were formed of horizontal courses corbelled out to the circle.
On the exterior the apse shows three sides, crowned with a corbelled cornice.
The space is first narrowed by two corbelled courses of stone and, above them, by three projecting courses of brick.
Below the dome arches the central area communicates with the surrounding ambulatory on the north, west, and south sides by large semicircular arches corbelled slightly out from the piers.
Above the four tiers of niches is a boldly corbelled cornice, like that in the chapel attached to the Pammakaristos.
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