The drum and domeof the design, of comparatively modest dimensions, are crowned with a minaret-like spire.
Wren would have said that they lack stability, and that he had calculated accurately on the minimum of massiveness requisite for security; and besides this, they have no heavy dome to be poised.
By 1685 the walls of the choir were finished, with the north and south porticoes, and the dome piers raised to a like height.
By uniting choir and dome for the purposes of congregational worship the intention of the architect has been carried into effect.
A smaller arch, rising from the architrave of the great pier, spans each shorter side of the octagon, and has a ceiling or quarter dome in the background, coming down to the terminal arches of the side aisles.
The building had not long been completed ere the great weight of the dome caused some of the piers to sink from an inch to more than two inches, and Edward Strong the younger had to repair cracks and fissures.
The well worked out designs of the different parts and details, and the combination of these into one harmonious whole with the dome for a background, leave nothing to be desired.
No doubt the size of the dome requires a proportionate rise in the lower elevations; but the fact remains that the exterior and interior do not correspond.
Three out of each four intervening spaces are pierced with square-headed windows; and from them such light as the dome possesses, streams down through the windows of the exterior colonnade.
West of the rotunda part was the foot of the cross, and a secondary dome was afterwards added.
Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight ’twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that domein air, That sunny dome!
KUBLA KHAN In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
The shadow of thedome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A magnificent temple is a laudable monument of national taste and religion; and the enthusiast who entered the dome of St. Sophia might be tempted to suppose that it was the residence, or even the workmanship, of the Deity.
The picture of the building shows also the dome for the South equatorial, which was erected many years later.
The vaulted half-dome of the basilican apse was a simple matter, compared with the mighty dome of Santa Sophia and its cluster of abutting half-domes.
Gild the dome of the Invalides,' was Napoleon's scornful prescription, when he heard the Parisian population were discontented.
Orsino leaned back silently in his place, gazing at the snow-covered dome of the volcano, from the summit of which rose a thin wreath of perfectly white smoke.
The skull cap had concealed the fact that the entire top of Savitch's head was a dome of polished silver.
Under the big dome they lingered for a time, walking from chapel to chapel, where nuns were praying.
There was the purple dome of the great Mosque of Omar, very clear against the amber-primrose lights of dawn.
Far to the right of Wachusett, nearly over the dome of the Dedham Courthouse, rounds up Watatic in Ashburnham, and northwest a dozen peaks of southern New Hampshire.
If we look to the west we see the city of Boston: the white tower of the Custom House; the gold dome of the State House; the sheds of the great South Station; the blue line of the Charles River.
Napoleon consoled the Parisians in their year of defeat by gilding the dome of the Invalides.
Presently the gilded dome of the State House, which marked our starting-point, came into view for the second time, and I knew that this side-show was over.
Illustration: A street in Jerusalem] It is a mournful fact that the one really fine building in Jerusalem should be the Mosque of Omar--the famous "Dome of the Rock.
This is built on the legendary site of the temple of Solomon, and the mosaics lining the inside of the dome are the most beautiful I have ever seen.
We could see the Auvergne hills at no great distance on our left--the Puy de Dome above them--and we four were riding together.
Though some of the bays of that narthex are oblong and others almost square all are covered with dome vaults.
In the former the dome rests on piers surrounded by an ambulatory; in the latter the dome rests upon the outer walls of the buildings.
The examples he produces seem rather octagons carried up from the ground to give a clearstory under the dome than true drums interposed between the dome and its pendentives.
In its original form the central dome was surrounded by an 'ambulatory' of one story formed by the aisles and 'inner narthex.
Both the shallow wall arches and the deep transverse arches under the dome are insertions in the walls of an older fabric.
To the student of architecture the dome of this church is specially interesting.
In design the church is an octagonal building roofed with a dome and enclosed by a rectangle, with a narthex along the west side.
The side dome arches had double arcades in two stories, and above them windows in the dome arches.
The domed basilica, as the name indicates, is a basilica with nave and aisles, in which a square bay in the centre of the nave is covered by a dome on pendentives.
Each side of the ambulatory is divided into three bays, covered with cross-groined vaults whose springings to the central area correspond exactly to the columns of such an arcade as that which occupies the west dome bay of S.
The great dome of St. Peter's stood out dark and clear against the yellow light, which shone through the casements below the dome till the whole seemed faint and ethereal as the air itself.
For my own part, I think it better work to bind a tower with iron, than to support a false dome by a brick pyramid.
The falling water sounded more distinctly, the sky was of a glaring blueness, and the dome of the World building glittered like a cloud of fire.
The dome of the World building reeled suddenly and clashed into the flaming sky.
There was immensity in the dome of the unbroken, seamless, gray threatening sky.
The fact that he was in Washington came upon Bradley again, as he saw the soaring domeof the capitol at the head of the avenue.
A leaden-gray dome of cloud had closed in over the morning sky and the feeling of snow was in the air.
Again they passed by the cold and stately palace of the Government, lifting itsdome against the glittering sky.
As the train drew out he looked back upon the city, and the great dome its centre, with a deep feeling of admiration, almost love.
Soaring streamers of red and flame-color arched the eastern sky like the dome of a mighty pagoda.
Politics to him, as to most western men, was the greatest concern of life, and the city of Washington the Mecca whose shining dome lured from afar.
Like the colossal dome at Rome, this one towers above every other structure in the city, with the height of the cross included, being forty feet higher than the lofty towers of Notre Dame.
The choir and transepts terminate in a circular domed apsis, and a large central dome rises at the intersection of the latter.
His eyes burned with the passion fire as a fair vision rose before him, yonder on the granite dome of the southern wall.
For a moment she lingered, smiling; but even as the Rock Chief leaped from his tower in answer to her call, she glided across the rounded dome and faded from his sight, leaving her throne shrouded in a snowy cloud.
I remembered that I had often heard mariners speak of a miraculous bird called the Roc, and conceived that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg.
