Tying into the keystones is a horizontal belt of marble across the entire front.
Marble belts at the first-and second-floor levels, marble window sills and keystones in the lintels relieve and brighten the effect, while an unusual diamond fret lends distinction to the cornice.
These windows are set effectively in brick arches with marble sills, keystones and imposts.
The keystone has the merchant's mark of Gresham, and the keystones of the side arches the arms of the merchant adventurers of his day, and the staple of Calais.
The keystones of the arches of the upper storey are decorated with the arms of all the principal nations of the world, in the order determined by the Congress of Vienna.
The walls in the nave of Westminster Abbey "are bent inwards at about the height of the keystones of the arches and outwards above and below this point, and they are structurally sound unto this day.
At the beginning of the XIII century that transept was vaulted in the eight-rib Plantagenet way, the keystonesbeing well carved.
They curve strangely, and two of the keystones are not in the axis of the passageway, nor has elasticity yet been wholly achieved, since the ends of the ribs plunge into the web of the vault.
As keystones were of different types in the various earlier decades of Gothic, they too help to substantiate an edifice.
Keystones were richly carved, and pretty figures and heads were added where the vault ribs met the framing arches.
It has noticeable capitals, mural paintings, and Plantagenet vaults with sculptured keystones and figurines.
The failure to make the keystones sufficiently large, and the consequent necessity for these supplementary wedges may be due to the architects not having allowed for the shrinkage of the bricks.
In the case of the pointed arched aqueducts found by Place, the arches in question are no true keystone arches, indeed they have no keystones of any kind as will be seen in Figs.
The walls were of red brick and stock brick spaced out with design, imitation white stone being sparingly introduced in cornices or keystones to give a note of white in the color scheme.
Upon two of the keystones grains and seeds were displayed in glass jars, while corn was shown in rows of ears.
The crowns of the arches take a great piece out of the architrave, and their keystones reach well within the plain and narrow frieze.
The eight great keystones of the arches by Caius Gabriel Cibber are seven feet by five, and eighteen inches in relief.
There were also scrolls, keystones and arches in curved design over all of the 40 windows.
Keystones are to be worn on all coats and overcoats, including the trench and short coats worn by officers, and the Mackinaws issued to Engineers motorcycle drivers, etc.
The keystones of the doorways and those of the window arches belong to this class, each bearing a single star.
The ribs do not all carry properly down, two out of the six being merely met by the keystones of the arches between Capilla Mayor and ambulatory.
The ornamentally ribbed vaulting with gilt bosses and keystones is carried by clustered shafts engaged in its side walls.
Mrs. Damer herself is modelling two masks for the keystones of the new bridge at Henley.
The keystones of the centre arch of the bridge at Henley are ornamented with heads of the Thames and Isis, designed by the Hon.
The Aisles The aisles are extremely lofty, the keystones of the vaults being richly sculptured.
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