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Example sentences for "rose window"

  • Similar relief or isolation of the figure against the background is shown in the thirteenth century bishops, occupying two divisions of a rose window at Salisbury, on page 275; and again in the little subject from Lyons, where S.

  • Even when it came to the glazing of a Rose window in a later Gothic style, it is not uncommon to find a series or two of medallions running round the window, as occurs at Angers.

  • The west façade was left bare, since there the church overlooked the ramparts; to it were added later a rose window and a Flamboyant gallery.

  • The west façade of Coutances is very Norman: plain portals, no rose window, and a staircase on a corner of each belfry.

  • Over this again is a rose window under an arch, and then the octagonal tower.

  • The intermediate aisle has in its outer wall a triforium, formed by an arcade of cusped arches; and above this, quite close to the point of the vault, a rose window in each bay.

  • The North Transept on the west side has some of the original Norman wall and Norman windows, and on the north end there are thirteenth-century buttresses with octagonal turrets, a large window and a rose window over it.

  • There was a very large east window, and a rose window over it.

  • There is a crocketed gable above the door, a rose window of good design, and some delicately-carved work surmounted by a cross.

  • Enter its great gloom, go forward until you are opposite the rose window in the north transept, and look up.

  • The southern transept is an architectural freak, because instead of a rose window it has a rounded end like the apse chapel generally found at the eastern extremity of a church.

  • A rose window forty-two feet in width occupies the centre of the next stage, flanked by two blunt-pointed windows rather bare of glass.

  • Topping the gables of the portals are a series of circular apertures, with framing of a sort, but without glass,--a poor imitation of what a rose window might be at its worst.

  • At the present day this west front is undergoing such restoration and general repair that the entire gable, rose window, and part of the flanking towers are completely covered with a most hideous array of scaffolding.


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