The next step, the appearance of Gothic itself, may best be held to date from the systematic but not exclusive use of pointed arches in association with ogival vaults about the middle of the 12th century.
Not only the walls but the vaults were built in this pozzolana concrete, and formed one solid mass.
Externally the brick walls were decorated with blind arcades and niches of Lombard style, and all the roof vaults were covered with lead as in Constantinople.
The elliptical sections given to all the barrel vaults may have been the traditional method derived from Assyria, of which, however, no remains exist.
The seven subdivisions of the different widths were all covered with semi-circular barrel vaults which, being built side by side, mutually resisted the thrust, the outer walls being of greater thickness, with the same object.
England of this important innovation, and it precedes by some quarter of a century the earliest ribbedvaults of the Ile-de-France.
It is only after ascending the interior and seeing the vaults carrying the roof that one fully realizes what a stupendous piece of work this is.
Those seats themselves are laid upon large vaults of concrete; the lower rows are of marble, the upper ones are as yet of wood.
Footnote 130: The last time I was in the crypt, I was impressed with the idea that some portions of it were actually of Roman workmanship; if so, St. Wilfrid has adapted to his own uses the vaults which he found on the spot.
Some vaults [Illustration: Crypt of Hexham Abbey Church] still remaining probably formed the crypt of this ancient structure.
These vaults may still be seen under Chateau de Ramezay.
Footnote 31: Especially the Chateau de Ramezay, where great underground vaults were built for the storing of pelts in case of attack from New Englander and Iroquois.
The older part of the cemetery of Pere Lachaise is very much crowded; the tombs or vaults in some avenues stand as close together, comparatively, as the doors of blocks of houses in a city thoroughfare.
In its dank and cobwebbed vaults John Britton served an apprenticeship to a wine-merchant; and in reading at intervals by candle-light, first evinced that love of literature which characterized his long life of industry and integrity.
In the basement are the original wine-vaults of the old Bush; many of the walls are six feet thick, and bonded throughout with Roman brick.
A labyrinth of narrow winding alleys, dark as the vaults of a cathedral, opened to our view.
Tis a grand labyrinth of solid vaults and pillars, as you well know, but you cannot conceive the partial gleams of sunshine which played on the arches, nor the variety of roots and ivies trailing from the cove.
Innumerable vaultsand arches peep out of the vegetation.
Procure some of this liquor, visit Antonia, and cause her to drink it; have her body conveyed to a sepulchre in the vaults of St. Clare.
At length our plans were completed; my companion had secured the key of a door in the chapel that led through the vaults to a trap-door opening into the garden.
Their shafts are of blue lias, the capitals richly carved; their groined vaults have a circular opening to admit to the upper storey of the tower, which has its corbels ornamented with foliage, although they cannot be seen.
The fortunate discovery of the papyri and coins, treated hereafter, give data for fixing the period of these vaults to the earlier Ptolemaic times.
These were buried about a foot below the surface, and were dedicated to persons buried in the vaults below.
Now the masons engaged on the work were at a standstill, waiting to be told to begin the part above the twelve braccia, and to make the vaults and bind them with ties.
The first and second courses at the base must be strengthened throughout with long blocks of grey-stone laid horizontally across them, in such wise that both vaults of the cupola may rest on the said blocks.
The first part of the masonry, up to the height of five braccia and a quarter, must be solid, leaving no vacant space, and then the buttresses must be continued and the two vaults separated.
She stretched out her clenched fists as if to defy the pillared austerities of the vaults around her.
By degrees the sedate influence of the silent vaultsseemed to depress him.
The hopelessness of impressing these cold and passive vaults with her selfish passion filled her with a vague fear.
Barrels of gunpowder had been placed in all the rooms of the Imperial palace, and one hundred and eighty-three thousand kilogrammes under the vaults that held them up.
Pale as death, paler than when they found her among the vaults of the Cathedral in the Kremlin, she was unable for many minutes to open her lips.
I got it first in the vaults of that accursed Holy House at Seville, and it grows on me year by year.
Under the old castle here, are the most beautiful vaults in the world; and I defy Beelzebub himself to nose us, when we are hidden there.
Our own dwelling is well enough; but if she so please, I will show you up the staircase which leads from the vaults to the court above.
Groined roofs or vaults of this style are distinguished from those of the preceding style, chiefly by the introduction of numerous extra or intermediate ribs and groins and by the natural foliage richly carved on the base.
In this period the vaults are distinguished by having ribs in the angles of the groins, with carved masses of foliage in stone, called bosses, at the intersection of the ribs.
The remarkable similarity between this course of proceeding and that adopted by their Great Ancestor beneath the vaults of the Parliament House at Westminster, is too obvious and too full of interest, to stand in need of comment.
V Open wide the vaults of Athol, Where the bones of heroes rest-- Open wide the hallowed portals To receive another guest!
If so, it would seem likely that he had practical illustrations about him; and this view receives some support from the existence of a few subterranean vaults which perhaps go back to the good Greek period.
In fact, the genuine vault is absent from Egyptian temple architecture, although in the Temple of Abydos false or corbelled vaults (cf.
So, too, the chapelled choir, with its apse of rounded vaults rising in imposing tiers.
Over its aisleless nave is carried one of the boldest and most magnificent vaults known.
I was thrown into the river which flowed by gloomyvaults beneath the houses, and had been carried down by the stream to the garden of a monastery where I was found.
These were the days when Vulcan and his demons burrowed in the earth's vaults to forge the armour of Mars.
These mountains are vast vaults that will hold in trust for centuries to come untold supplies of precious metal for the American nations.
A few of the inner dungeons, for the worst criminals, were dug still deeper underground, and rough stairways of earth led down into them, which were shut out from the upper vaults by strong doors.
Diamonds stripped from idols' eyes, and rubies and sapphires pillaged from the vaults of ancient temples!
His true purpose in Shingtse-lunpo I have never learned from his lips, but I am of the opinion that he might have been deluded by fantastic tales of jewels and wealth in the vaults of Lhakang-gompa.
The vaults had been looted of the state treasures.
The possibility of ever making away with the jewels seemed very meager--until I found out that there was a tunnel leading from a point somewhere outside the city up into the vaults of Lhakang-gompa.
That seemed to touch a spring that opened secret vaultsof his nature.
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