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Example sentences for "headed windows"

  • Interrupting this on the south side are two round-headed windows, still small but much larger than the slits found in the older churches.

  • The round-headed windows come up high, and till it was so richly adorned by Dom Manoel during his grand mastership of the Order of Christ more than three hundred years later, the church must have been extremely simple.

  • The five chapels have a profusion of colonnettes, three round-headed windows each, and some beautiful sculpture in relief.

  • The walls are pierced by small round-headed windows resting on spiral colonnettes.

  • The nave and aisles are lighted by forty small round-headed windows, and their roofs rest on forty semicircular arches springing from massive piers, with attached columns ornamented with the peculiar capitals of their period.

  • It was octagonal, with four little round-headed windows, and the hexagonal font was built up from the floor, the rim being level with the top-most of the three steps which surrounded the building.

  • The round-headed windows of both nave and aisles had pierced slabs of stone in them, but in 1740 the openings were made lunette-shaped.

  • The other bays are cross-vaulted, and there are several round-headed windows.

  • Francesco, which has a tower of five stories near the east end, and long trefoil-headed windows.

  • An elaborate wheel-window occupies the upper part of the chancel gable; above it is a blind arcade of transitional pointed arches, and below are two round-headed windows.

  • The ruins consist of ivy-clad walls of brick and flint, pierced by square-headed windows, but containing few interesting features.

  • Flat buttresses of brick are built against the clerestory wall between the round-headed windows.

  • The fenestration with many round-headed windows is excellent and has already been alluded to in Chapter VIII.

  • The stoop and doorway are of simple dignity, the double doors having the appearance of being four separate, very narrow four-panel doors, and the graceful fanlight above being in accord with the round-headed windows of the lower story.

  • Pedimental dormers were the rule, sometimes with round-headed windows.

  • In the east gable of the nave as it at present exists, two round-headed windows may be seen.

  • Above this comes the clerestory, the pointed arch between the round-headed windows indicating a somewhat later date; and above this there is a chamber perfectly plain within, and not open to the church below.

  • In each face are two round-headed windows with a pointed blank arch between them.

  • In succeeding times, either the want of a sufficient quantity of light, or a desire for improvement, led to the introduction of larger cinquefoil-headed windows, occupying equal portions of the upper and lower stories.

  • The central tower of the church of St. Nicholas is square and small, and so low as to admit only a single tier of semi-circular-headed windows, four on each side.

  • Two tiers of circular-headed windows of equal size fill up the front.

  • The north side of the nave exhibits in the clerestory the round-headed windows of the original Norman church.

  • It has two ranges of eight large semicircular-headed windows in the northern and southern walls, some of them modified, others built up, since the building became a mosque.

  • It is divided into twelve bays by square ribs, and is lighted by twelve semicircular-headed windows.

  • The drum of the dome is pierced by twenty semicircular-headed windows (of which only five are now open), and as their arches and the dome spring at about the same level the heads of the windows impinge upon the dome's surface.

  • The large church is cruciform with a central tower which is Norman in character with small round-headed windows.

  • In the stage above are three round-headed windows with a shaft in either jamb and foliage on the capitals.

  • The third stage, which corresponds to the triforium within, is blank here as on the west side, and in the fourth stage are three round-headed windows, plainly recessed and chamfered.

  • The tower which stands to the left of the northern entrance is one of the few in the Romanesque style to be seen in northern Spain; it is severe in its structure and pierced by a series of round-headed windows.

  • Two massive square towers, crenelated at the top and pierced by a few round-headed windows, flank the western front.

  • This was lighted throughout by small external round-headed windows, some of which may still be seen embedded in the walls.

  • One is the old twelfth-century string which evidently once ran along above the old round-headed windows.

  • On the east side of this part of the transept, at the clerestory level, are two round-headed windows.

  • Above the arcades were low clerestories, lighted by round-headed windows.

  • Above this, the walls rose into a clerestory, pierced with round-headed windows at regular intervals; and a high entablature supported the great tie-beams of the wooden roof.

  • The clerestory of the nave remains, with unusually broad round-headed windows.


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