More than in any other style, and they are often profusely enriched, the front and sides being covered with panel-work, tracery, and niches for statuary.
Those, however, who could not afford such expensive monuments subscribed for a joint tomb (columbarium), a large chamber containing in its walls numerous niches for the urns.
From other inscriptions of the same character it appears that the niches were arranged in five horizontal rows of thirty-six, and that each of the members of the burial club was allotted one place in each of the five rows.
These jars were deposited in rows of little niches sunk in the brickwork all round the walls of the tomb, resembling the nests in a pigeon-house; hence the origin of the name.
For centuries he had been nursing it, watching the Sarkas always in the niches just above him, yet never being able to attain to their eminence.
He saw her move toward one of the little candle-lit niches in the wall and fall quite simply on her knees there.
With Roman military foresight, the officer marked with chalk the route they took, and fixed occasionally a torch in the niches in the wall.
Underneath each of the principal nichesis a carved quatrefoil within a square, bearing a shield charged with armorial bearings enamelled on copper.
Some set their bare feet in the niches of the brick and strove to climb over.
On each side of the portico there are three niches in the front, containing on one side Pericles, Phidias and Vulcan; on the other, Hadrian, Prometheus and Daedalus.
In one of these arched nichesis sculptured the suit of armour, with helmet, gauntlets, &c.
The Temple, which is open, is of circular form in its interior, with recess and niches with stone seats, the niches enriched with carved shell-heads and festoons of flowers.
Facing the entrance, on the first landing, is a magnificent vase, and in canopied niches in the wall are exquisitely sculptured figures, the arms of Lowther and the alliances of the family also appropriately decorating the walls.
The statues in the niches are Flora Farnese and an antique Bacchus.
The vaulting shafts are brought down to the bottom of the clerestory windows, and have niches under them.
There is no chancel arch, but the rood stair turret still remains on the south side; and under the east window, externally, are some good niches and panels.
Beneath is a series of blank niches with a statue in the centre.
Thirty-two small figures may be counted in niches in the buttresses dividing the compartments; crockets, finials, and pinnacles decorate the various canopies over the carvings.
The lower niches have pedestals, each formed of four short columns with detached bases but with large capitals, which meet one another above; these capitals are richly carved with foliage.
In this, and also in the lower structure, there are many rooms made of wrought stone, in which are a great number of niches or cells one or two yards deep, which were used as tombs.
Each story contains a great number of square niches symmetrically distributed.
This refers to the use of the half-cupola for semicircular niches and the apsidae.
The latter is furnished with vaulted aisles, adorned with pilasters and niches in the Romano-Egyptian style.
In these chambers, formed in the rock, and to a considerable extent, they had hollowed out many niches in which were placed the bodies of the heads of families for whom these sepulchres were destined.
In numerousniches and corners are statues of interest.
The niches of the dome are beautifully painted, and the chief arch is decorated with mosaics.
But the niches that had contained the ashes of these renowned crusaders were empty.
The angels that I know are creatures of unstable fancy--they will not fit in niches of substantial stone.
Others, who hadniches for their deceased relatives, lighted candles and fell to praying devoutly.
Sarazin executed the four statues in niches which beautify the facade towards the gardens; he also carved the two hounds which guard the door of the house on the same side.
Several of its windows were bricked up in the eighteenth century; the ground-floor windows have been replaced by niches decorated with statues, and at the end of the apse a little door has been opened to communicate with the sacristy.
A proposal was made to fill the vacant niches in the rotunda with paintings descriptive of the battle of New Orleans and the general's other victories.
On the outside of the dome, about twenty feet above the outer roof of the church, is a range of thirty-two columns, with niches of the same altitude, and directly counter to those aforesaid within the cupola.
The intercolumns are niches replenished; those within the Bar towards the east, with the figures of King James I.
In St Maclou at Rouen are three magnificently carved doors; those by Jean Goujon have figures in niches on each side, and others in a group of great beauty in the centre.
Gothic niches, and in the upper panels a double range of niches with figures about 2 ft.
The doors of the church at Gisors (1575) are carved with figures in niches subdivided by classic pilasters superimposed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "niches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
