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The church of Cirencester contains a large amount of beautiful Perpendicular work. In the grand old tower are twelve bells of excellent tone. The Early English stonework in the chancel and chapels is very curious, a fine arch opening from the nave to the tower. There is, in fact, a great deal to be seen on all sides which would delight the lover of architecture.
Adrian did find it close, and took the hint, to discover that in a line with his head was some filigree stonework, pierced with small apertures, the front doubtless of the marble tomb in the church above, for through them he could see the pale moon rays wavering on the pavement of the choir. As he looked the priest at his side muttered: "Hark! The doors are down. Aid us, St.
The vaulting of the tower is his work testudine pulcherrimâ concameratam consummavit and he also added the buttressing arches with great care and industry he annexed to the columns which support the same tower two arches or vaults of stonework, curiously carved, and four smaller ones, to assist in sustaining the said tower."
As distinguished from surfaced stonework, it possesses that flexibility in use so essential to the many and varied requirements of domestic architecture imposed by the personality and mode of living of the owner.
At last he halted, and backed the little car against the quay parapet, in full view of the Grotto. "Will you be all right here?" he asked. "Oh yes, thank you. Only you must sit me up; I shall then be able to see much better." M. de Guersaint raised her into a sitting posture, and then for his part climbed upon the stonework running from one to the other end of the quay.
I fell over them myself the same night when I landed, on the Monday, going up to old Nanny's." "Who told you it was those cursed spikes? Well, well, so it was; but not on the Monday, Jack, it was on the Wednesday." "Nay, that cannot be; for on the Tuesday, as I went down to the beach, I saw them all fixed up in the stonework, and soldered in.
'What is that? said Faith, catching a glimpse of something that the carriage-lamp showed on the face of one wall as they passed, a marble bas- relief of some battle-piece, built into the stonework.
The promiscuous use of rough, long, quarried stones, square blocks and narrow strips on end results in an utterly irrational effect, a confusing medley of short lines. Going to the other extreme, the use of stones so small and irregular as to suggest a "crazy-quilt" mosaic rather than structural stonework is equally displeasing.
His first work was some carving at the cemetery on the hill; and ultimately he became engaged on the labour he most desired the cathedral repairs, which were very extensive, the whole interior stonework having been overhauled, to be largely replaced by new.
Although the site of this monument is more humble than that of Sir Thomas Raffles' statue at Singapore, it is scarcely less interesting; and the repair and preservation of the stonework is secured by a special clause in the treaty of cession. I think it was just here that Dr. Treub turned away from the Canary Avenue, and, taking one of the paths to the right, led me forward towards the river.
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