At times the battlements were provided with parapets resting upon corbels but executed in a crude manner.
These arches support a flat ceiling of rafters, with boarding between them, resting on corbels in the cross walls.
The corbels supporting the groining shafts are very quaintly carved with the story of a knight battling with lions.
Two corbels support the tympanum, which has now no sculpture, nor any signs of ever having had any, and the arch has eight orders of sculptured moulding.
The roof was of very flat pitch, and consisted of a series of purlines resting on corbels built into the wall over the stone arches, upon which were laid the common rafters.
The two corbelswhich support the tympanum have on their face angels blowing trumpets, and under them two lions, eating, one of them two wyverns, the other a man.
A bold row of corbelsis carried round the turret between the octagonal and square stages, as if for the support of a projecting parapet which no longer exists.
This hall is spanned by four moulded semicircular arches rising from corbels formed of a cluster of shafts.
In the south wall six of these arches have enormous stone coffins, each supported on three corbels on the backs of three lions.
The groining is now destroyed, and behind it are seen thecorbels in the cross wall marking the rake of the first roof.
It has a square lintel and a pointed arch above: bold corbels on either side carry a high tomb, the base of which is just over the lintel; this is arcaded at the side and ends, and on its sloping top is a figure of a knight.
Statues are set on corbels round the detached shafts, and again in the jambs of all the doorways, and the tympana and archivolts of the latter are everywhere crowded with sculpture.
On the corbels of the north porch, looking towards the hills of Winchester, are Bishops Andrewes and Ken on the outside; on the inside, Wykeham and Waynflete.
Two rows of beams which rest on the side wall as corbels or cantilevers, only touching at the top, without necessarily any thrust.
Pepi's roof is formed by a row of large beams which rested independently on the side walls ascorbels or cantilevers (see Note 29).
The intermediate transverse arches, therefore, rise from corbels above the crowns of the side aisle arches, a fact which explains their higher imposts.
Of course the intermediate ribs necessarily rise from corbels, but in the developed crossings of this type such corbels are placed as near as possible to the crowns of the four great arches of the nave, choir, and transepts.
The roof is apparently of the same date; it is flat and of wood, carried by corbels carved and painted to represent angels bearing shields.
Some corbels that helped to support the cloister roofs are still to be seen, projecting from the south wall of the church, and from Ernulf's buildings.
The arch of the recess, springing fromcorbels of elaborately carved foliage, retains traces of colouring, and the wall within is painted with green foliated scroll-work on a dark red ground.
The corbels that support the vaulting shafts are equally elaborately carved.
See Prideaux and Shafto, "Bosses and Corbels of Exeter Cathedral.
During the restoration the corbelsand roof-bosses were cleaned and carefully repaired.
Carved corbels catch the fall of certain diagonals, and in place of a triforium is an interior passageway that passes through the shafts.
He dared traverse his exterior buttresses by circulation passages, he dared catch his heavily weighted diagonals on corbels (carved with original heads), and to poise a mass of material on the slenderest of colonnettes.
The lower half of the inclosure walls is ornamented with a blind arcade above which runs a circulating gallery carried on corbels carved with fantasy.
Its transverse ribs are caught along the wall on corbels carved with grotesques.
On the outer wall the diagonals were caught on corbels placed above the capitals, and though such an arrangement shows maladroitness, the ribs themselves were made by no novice hand.
A favourite place for humourous figures was on the stone brackets or corbels which bear up timber roofs; examples are in the ape corbel in this article, and the responsible yet happy-looking saint at the end of the list of Contents.
They are generally found in exposed situations at some elevation, as among the series of corbels (corbula a small basket) or brackets called the corbel-table, supporting a stone course or cornice.
Some of the corbels are examples of the grotesque imagery of the period.
Upon the side walls are an equal number of columns reaching about half-way down, and supported by foliated corbels to match the capitals; the vault, springing from these and the pillars, divide the length into eight bays.
Sometimes these corbels carry a small arcade under the string course, the arches of which are pointed and trefoiled.
The corbels carrying balconies in Italy and France were sometimes of great size and richly carved, and some of the finest examples of the Italian Cinquecento style are found in them.
Beams resting on corbels beneath the windows cross the nave, while the aisles have a flat panelled roof, with bosses at the intersections of the framing.
All the vaults are domical, and those of the nave spring from corbels carved in the style of Venetian fifteenth-century work.
The corbelsfrom which the vaults spring are carved, the subjects being two groups of boys playing, a man fighting a dragon or basilisk with club and little target, a struggle between a girl and a bear, &c.
Fantastic corbels surround the summit of the lateral walls.
The death-bed scene is sculptured on one of the corbels of the Octagon Towers at Ely, where the more picturesque events of her life are quaintly set before us in stone.
Slightly higher than these portrait heads, supporting canopied niches, come the celebrated corbels on which are sculptured the leading events of the life of St. Etheldreda in the following order: I.
He decked with foliage and fruit the bosses above and the corbels below.
He sent up out of those corbels upright shafts along the walls, in the likeness of the trees which sprang out of the rocks above his head.
B and B under the corbels D, until the king-post C lies flat against the side of the tree-trunk.
Above the triforium is the clerestory, which contains one light to each sub-bay, and surmounting all is the vaulting, which springs from the piers and from grotesquely carved corbels between the triforium arches.
In the north wall of the chancel is the priests' door, now walled up, and the corbels and springers of the original chancel arch built by Pudsey.
A difference will be observed in the corbels supporting the mouldings of the eastern and western arches.
The corbels supporting the roof are carved with representations of Kings and Abbots.
The nave is Perpendicular, solid and plain; the roof quite modern, though the corbels that supported the old one, carved with representations of angels singing and playing, were not disturbed.
Note the corbels on either side of the chancel to support the Lenten veil, and some curious old seats.
A few corbels of an earlier church and a piece of interlaced carving are preserved in the S.
Note, in passing, thecorbels with conventual figures.
The beauty of the interior is much enhanced by the insertion of "vaulting shafts" beneath the corbels of both nave and aisles.
Its three vaults are differently arched, the ribs not being carried down against the side walls to the floor, but met by broad corbels supported by curious figures.
In both the chapel monuments and the banquet-hall corbels there may be a memory of the following passage from Cary's Dante (quoted by Mr Buxton Forman and Prof.
On the north side these corbels merely have plain mouldings, but on the south side they are foliated.
The springers of the vaulting are supported by slender shafts, which rest on elaborately foliaged corbelsin the spandrels of the great arches.
On the buttresses on either side of the doorway are four headless statues, resting on corbels supported by projecting figures.
It is supported by a cluster of shafts, against the wall, in each angle, resting on corbels carved with foliage.
The springers rest on clusters of three long slender vaulting-shafts, rising from foliagedcorbels just above the capitals of the nave piers.
Around it were ranged, on a series of sculptured corbels or consoles, the heads of fifteen prophets, painted in colours.
The flatness of the elevation is relieved, and the whole bound together vertically, by three half-round turrets, which spring from corbels below the sill strings of the first floor windows.
The trefoiled tracery is satisfactory, and exquisitely carved faces look down upon you from the corbels of the drip-stones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corbels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
