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Example sentences for "cruciform"

Lexicographically close words:
crucifix; crucifixes; crucifixion; crucifixions; crucifixus; crucify; crucifying; crude; crudelis; crudely
  1. It is a cruciform building of flamboyant period, but of no architectural interest.

  2. It is a flamboyant cruciform structure (1524) with a fine double doorway and with foliage about it, and with late flamboyant tracery in some of the windows, but from most it has been hacked away.

  3. In the churchyard are a large late cruciform chapel and an ossuary.

  4. A pretty walk up the glen of about three miles leads to the chapel of the Sept-Saints, a cruciform structure erected in 1702, with a S.

  5. The church is of large dimensions, cruciform in plan, with short transepts, and a Lady chapel having the unusual peculiarity of an upper story.

  6. The cathedral is a Norman structure, cruciform in plan, with an exceptionally long nave, an apsidal choir, and attached chapels.

  7. In the centre of this court stands the catholicon or conventual church, a square building with an apse of the cruciform domical Byzantine type, approached by a domed narthex.

  8. The church of St Mary is cruciform and mainly Perpendicular.

  9. The church of St Mary and All Saints is a large and beautiful cruciform building principally of the Decorated period.

  10. It is cruciform with a central tower 127 ft.

  11. Many Byzantine churches, both cruciform and basilican, have been excavated.

  12. The infant stream, here a mere trickle under the hedgerows, comes down from East Meon, three miles away, where there is a cruciform church containing a black Tournai font, and an old stone pulpit dating from the fifteenth century.

  13. The fine cruciform structure, with a handsome four storied central tower, dates from about 1420 and occupies the site of an older building, probably Norman.

  14. Sampford church is a cruciform Decorated building with some interesting monuments to the Strangeways, the family of Lord Ilchester.

  15. The handsome cruciform church, in the midst of its fine chestnut trees, is of much interest.

  16. The cruciform building is in the main Transitional and Early English.

  17. The restored cruciform church, Perpendicular in style, has a modern addition in its clock, a relic of the old building of Christ's Hospital in the City of London.

  18. Here is an Early English cruciform church with one or two interesting features, including an ancient effigy near the altar, in what appears to be a winding sheet.

  19. Iwerne Minster, the next village on the road, possesses a very fine cruciform church of dates varying from Norman to Perpendicular, though the main structure is in the later style.

  20. The main road continues up the valley to Stapleford, where is a fine cruciform church with Norman arches on the south of the nave and with a door of this period on the same side.

  21. Bishopstone, the next village, has a very fine cruciform church, most interesting in its general details.

  22. This is a pleasant little market town of no great interest apart from its noble fifteenth-century cruciform church which has an uncommonly fine west front, with empty niches, alas!

  23. The cruciform church is a fine structure, mostly built of flint and dating from Transitional times.

  24. Deeply embowered among the trees is the small cruciform church with an interesting Norman door, showing in the tympanum, a bishop, said to represent St. Aldhelm, in the act of benediction.

  25. The Perpendicular cruciform church suffered greatly from fire some years ago, though happily the tower escaped.

  26. This mark seemed to have been made by a cruciform piece of metal, or some other hard substance, inlaid into the sole.

  27. Already the old cruciform key was trembling in the silver scutcheon.

  28. Julian and his wife are rowing the boat, apparently in opposite directions, and standing up is the passenger, no other than Our Lord Himself, as we see from the cruciform nimbus.

  29. It may be urged that the cruciform nimbus is a mere arbitrary sign, nothing in itself more than a combination of lines.

  30. The present St. Sophia, on the contrary, may be regarded as practically the type of the cruciform structure.

  31. Nay, the very cruciform nimbus that encircles Christ's head is an assertion of this principle.

  32. The church is cruciform in plan, and contains old monuments of the Herbert and the Mortimer families.

  33. It is now a complete ruin; the church is gone, though just enough remains to show that it was cruciform in plan.

  34. The fine cruciform church of St. Bartholomew, whose only real rival among Somersetshire churches is that at Ilminster, in precisely the same style of architecture, occupies a pleasant situation westward of the river.

  35. The former is a fine cruciform structure, crowned with a central spire; the latter a spacious tract, planted with aged trees.

  36. A small Whorl, with cruciform Pattern on both sides (see Plate).

  37. Two quadruple Rising Suns, a + with curved arms, several dots, and a curious cruciform Sign.

  38. It is cruciform in shape, with an octagonal termination.

  39. A pinnacle rises out of the roof in a cruciform shape, and four smaller ones exquisitely sculptured stand between the gables.

  40. The cruciform church of St Andrew has Norman and later portions; it is the burial-place of Henry Hallam the historian, and members of his family, including his sons Arthur and Henry.

  41. The cathedral church, dedicated to its founder St Colman, a disciple of St Finbar of Cork, is a plain cruciform building mainly of the 14th century, with an earlier oratory in the churchyard.

  42. As time passed, these cruciform churches were surmounted with a dome, steeple, or tower at the point where the members of the cross intersected each other.

  43. Cruciform marks are sometimes found on our churches, often on a stone in the porch; they are usually incised crosses or five dots in the form of a cross.

  44. The church was cruciform in shape, and is now all ruinous but the nave which does duty as the parish church.

  45. The barbs, if such they may be called, are usually at rather more than a right angle to the stem, and occasionally project considerably from the side of the blade, giving it a somewhat cruciform appearance.

  46. The cruciform ornament on the stone stud would at first sight suggest the possibility of its being the Christian symbol.

  47. It possesses an interesting little cruciform church, with a central tower supported on E.

  48. Near the church is a cruciform tithe barn.

  49. At present it is cruciform in plan, with a tower on the N.

  50. Near the church is a noble cruciform barn, once belonging to the abbots of Glastonbury, with the emblems of the Evangelists at the gables.

  51. Somerton, has a cruciform church with a central tower, in the piers of which are large foliated squints.

  52. The original cruciform plan of the church is disguised by the N.

  53. This is a fine cruciform structure, with a central tower and a quite remarkable W.

  54. The church is a small cruciform building with a central octagonal tower and spire.

  55. It has an interesting church, which, like that of its neighbour North Curry, is cruciform with a central octagonal tower.

  56. This is a very fine cruciform barn similar to those at Doulting and Pilton, but rather richer in detail.

  57. It is cruciform in plan, with a central tower, and is said to be an E.

  58. Externally the church is a cruciform building with a central tower, characterized by two tiers of double windows and spired octagonal turrets at the corners.

  59. Its spacious church, originally cruciform in plan, with a central tower surmounted by a lead-covered spire of disproportionate size, is remarkable for its series of Norm.

  60. It has a pretty church, cruciform in plan, with a chancel of E.

  61. It is a large cruciform structure with a central tower, having three windows in the belfry, and rather shallow buttresses.

  62. Herbs, with a pungent watery juice and cruciform tetradynamous flowers; fruit a silique or silicle.

  63. St. Mary, in Lowgate, also a cruciform structure, with central tower, dates from the early part of the fourteenth century.

  64. The gateway of the abbey, which was a cruciform building with a plain round tower in the centre, stands, but it is blocked by the rubbish of a large windmill which tumbled upon it in the last century.

  65. The parish church (Holy Trinity) is a magnificent Decorated and Perpendicular structure, cruciform in plan, with a tower rising to a height of 150 feet.

  66. Within, the long arched roof and lines of alternate round and cruciform pillars are almost overwhelming, not so much on account of their height as of their ponderous strength and massive dignity.

  67. But a few years since it was one of the most perfect second-class cruciform churches in England, and an edifice full of the most interesting associations connected with the ancient history of the Metropolis.

  68. The Holy Child is distinguished by a cruciform nimbus, while that of the Virgin is a plain circle.

  69. In some cases bearings heat from the existence of a cruciform groove on the top brass for the distribution of the oil, the effect of which is to leave the top of the bearings dry.

  70. As a corollary of the true cruciform plan, the four arms are all of equal width.

  71. The cruciform plan, beautiful as it is, was never generally adopted.

  72. The cruciform plan of Melbourne, Derbyshire, with its aisled nave, was probably inspired more directly by continental examples.

  73. The thirteenth century aisleless churches of Potterne, in Wiltshire, and Acton Burnell, in Shropshire, are both cruciform in plan.

  74. Similarly the quire and chancel of the cruciform church of Holy Trinity at Hull are aisled to their full length: the arrangement, again, is that of a cathedral rather than a parish church.

  75. Even in strictly cruciform churches, transepts were sometimes treated with a freedom which was more appropriate to the transeptal chapel.

  76. The absence of the tower is an anomaly, but is one method of solving the problem of the connexion between nave and chancel in the cruciform plan.

  77. It must be noted once more that to the cruciform plan the central tower built on piers and arches is essential.

  78. The cruciform plan with central tower is the most noble of all church plans, when carried out by builders with large ideas.

  79. The plans of Bampton, Burford, and Witney, show how the builders of west Oxfordshire experimented in cruciform planning.

  80. We have arrived thus at a centralised plan of cruciform shape, of which the component parts are rectangular, the central space being approximately a square.

  81. Further dignity was given to some cruciform churches by the addition of aisles to the transepts.

  82. In the Island of Lewis, in Scotland, there is one combining the cruciform and circular form.

  83. The entire shell, with its pavement of small plates and the twenty cruciform perspinal holes.

  84. In the centre the cruciform mouth with four teeth.

  85. The cruciform mouth is visible in the upper part of the figure, to the right.

  86. A cruciform perspinal hole, with its four teeth, seen in profile, x 400 [Illustration: 1.

  87. A cruciform perspinal hole, seen from the face, x 400 Fig.

  88. The dorsal wall is visible, in the cephalis the cruciform frontal septum.


  89. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cruciform" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ankh; chi; crisscross; cross; crossbones; crucifix; crux; dagger; rood; swastika