The roof is made either by laying large slabs across the tops of the sides or by corbelling with smaller slabs as at Stoney Littleton.
The walls in one case stood high enough to show, from the corbelling of their upper courses, that the huts were roofed in the same fashion as the nuraghi themselves.
Buildings in which this system is used are occasionally roofed with slabs, but more often corbelling is employed.
It is roofed by the successive overlapping orcorbelling of the upper courses.
The corbelling of the apse is just perceptible in Pl.
The chamber is circular, and roofed partly by corbelling and partly by a large slab.
The roof is formed by corbelling the walls and finishing off with slabs laid across.
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.
This angle contains the tower staircase, which is lighted by a little window in the upper corbelling and is reached from the clearstorey gallery of the transept.
The bold corbelling at the top recalls the similar treatment of the towers of St. Machar's, Aberdeen, and other examples derived from domestic architecture.
The ramparts upon the summit of a Rectangular Keep were carried upon the walls themselves, the latter, as a rule, being sufficiently thick for the purpose without corbelling outwards.
Two courses of corbelling also appeared on the two chimneys located at the back and in the center section of the building.
The church, which dates from the fifteenth century, is a most beautiful brown brick building with delicatecorbelling under the eaves.
Detail of windows and corbelling for chimneys, Coccaglio.
The windows are marked by the same elaboration of their sills which we noticed in the Broletto at Bergamo, and the detail of these, as also of the corbelling out from the wall of several chimney-breasts, is exceedingly good.
The whole of thecorbelling terminates at the bottom in a foliated pendant.
In the interiors of Saracenic buildings what is generally known as honeycomb corbelling is constantly employed to fill up corners and effect a change of plan from a square below to a circle or octagon above.
Its vault is constructed of stones corbelling over one another, and is not a true arch (Figs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corbelling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
