The majority of the columns at Anarajapoora are of dressed stone, octangularand of extremely graceful proportions.
West of the Coro are two bays of nave, over the western of which rises the lower part of a rich octangular lantern.
Two grand towers on the eastern face of the castle are octangular in plan, and one of them rises in three stages, each slightly within the other, and each finished with fine corbelled machicoulis.
This is octangular in plan, with lancet-windows in the cardinal sides, and the sides of its spire pierced with two rows of small lights.
The font is situated in the centre aisle, near to the pulpit and reading desk; it is of an octangular form, and sustained on a pillar of the same shape.
It is anoctangular building supported within-side by eight elegant Corinthian Pillars.
On the North side stands a tower of an octangular form, supporting the spire.
The octangular dome over the chancel is also of the byzantine era; however, it has been renewed in several parts.
It is from that spot that rises the spire (flèche), which is an octangular pyramid of an extraordinary boldness, offering to the astonished gazer nothing of a massive construction.
The eastern side comprises a third portal, flanked with octangular turrets, and is of greater richness than the preceding fronts.
Over the portal in the centre is a bay-window of considerable beauty, with octangular towers on each side, and on the face of the towers are introduced busts of Roman emperors in terra cotta, which had been sent to Cardinal Wolsey by Leo X.
The interview about to be related took place in the large octangular chamber previously described.
At the summit are sunk trefoils under the gabled tops; and a little further to the west, on the south, the whole is finished by an octangular turret with shallow arches and a pyramidal top with crockets.
From what we see remaining, it is clear that it was (if ever built) similar to the southern limb; and it was doubtless terminated in the same way by two massive octangular towers.
It consisted of three octangular compartments, each supported by eight slender columns.
At the eastern end is a fine Early English arched entrance, in fair preservation; and in the south-eastern angle is an octangular recess, which formerly was ceiled by an elegantly groined roof, height thirteen feet.
It is a parallelogram built around an open court, with a lofty square tower projecting from the western front, and having octangular turrets at the angles.
On leaving the chamber you come into an octangular gallery, issuing from which are four circular chambers; each chamber contains a masterpiece of art.
On ascending a few steps at the other end of this hall, in a small octangular room, are the statue of Meleager; the famous Torso; the tomb of Scipio with bas-reliefs.
The exterior of the Salle des Procureurs is comparatively simple: the most highly decorated part of it is the gable, which is flanked by two octangular turrets, ornamented with crocketed pinnacles and flying buttresses.
Another, of the same material, is set with an octangular bloodstone, with a circular turquoise on each side.
Trallian, another physician, living in the fourth century, cured the colic and all bilious complaints by means of an octangular ring of iron, on which eight words were to be engraved, commanding the bile to take possession of a lark!
Here they used to swing the bells, and the place was called the lantern or louvre; thence the octangular spire arose easily and naturally.
Each separate face of their towers, whether these towers were square or octangular, ended above in a gable; and from these gables, in various ways, arose the octangular pointed roof or spire.
This consisted in a tall, perpendicular, octangular structure, placed upon the tower, quite light and open, and pierced with long windows.
This is on the exterior a large and lofty octangular building, adorned in a succession of stages by small detached shafts carrying the cornices and strings which divide the elevation.
This church had an octangular steeple, whilst another church in the same village had one of the bulbous coverings of which I have before complained.
It is of early date, cruciform in its plan, and the crossing surmounted by a good early tower and spire of octangular form.
The upper and octangular stage of the campanile is comparatively modern, but rather improves the whole effect than otherwise.
Catacombs, formed of massive octangular pillars, and supporting ranges of shelves, line the walls on either side.
Above that the summit appeared to rise in an octangular form, diminishing gradually to the stones above described.
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