The water is liquid sapphire, and the whole rocky vaulting of the cavern shimmers to its inmost recesses with a pale blue light of marvelous beauty.
The vaulting is awkward in these two bays, and yet he has taken great trouble to effect what seems at first a small matter.
Thomas's method of treating this problem was sure to be as scientific as thevaulting of a Gothic arch.
The towers were no doubt beautiful, if one may judge from the towers of Bayeux and Coutances, but their weight broke down the vaulting beneath, and one of them fell in 1300.
The subject of vaulting is far too ambitious for summer travel; it is none too easy for a graduate of the Beaux Arts; and few architectural fields have been so earnestly discussed and disputed.
The vaulting is a study for wiser men than we can ever be.
The quiet, restrained strength of the Romanesque married to the graceful curves and vaulting imagination of the Gothic makes a union nearer the ideal than is often allowed in marriage.
The vaulting above is heavy, about fifteen inches thick; the buttressing had also to be heavy; and to lighten it, the architect devised an amusing sort of arcades, applied on his outside buttresses.
Iron columns filled with concrete support thevaulting of the various floors, and are protected by a casing of fire-brick, between which and the column an air space is left.
The vaulting made the vaulter springy, and strengthened his thighs and calves materially, and his abdominal muscles somewhat, while the more advanced work on the rings brought both the biceps and abdominal muscles into most energetic play.
It contains Norman work and some of the finest fan-vaulting in existence.
It is now roofless, and even the vaulting of the crypt is nearly destroyed.
The interior is no less remarkable, the arches and vaulting of the nave being some of the most beautiful in existence.
The vaulting shafts of the nave rise from the ground, and owing to the thickness of the Norman masonry, there is no proper triforium.
Perhaps the most interesting feature of the interior is the twelfth-century wooden vaulting of the nave.
The low vaulting is a serious defect in the choir built by St. Hugh, but of the superb beauty of the Angel Choir, which encloses his shrine, there can be no doubt.
Ten octagonal columns, painted to represent marble, stand in the nave and support the Gothic groined vaulting which springs from gilded Corinthian capitals.
On the vaulting of the dome which forms, so to speak, the foot of the Greek cross, is the Descent of the Holy Ghost.
Indeed, it is a great relief to find oneself inside out of the glare of the Piazza, and, seated in a corner perhaps, quietly contemplating the grand mosaics which cover the vaulting from end to end.
Despite their present warm colour, the damp chilliness of this beautiful little church strikes a mournful note hardly relieved by the flaring red brick, or the gorgeous tone of the mosaics which cover the vaulting of the choir and apse.
The vaulting of the two domes which compose the arms of the cross is decorated by work of later date; that on the north with the history of S.
The vaulting of the nave is peculiar, it is elliptical.
The quadripartite vaulting is borne by thick stunted columns that are barely five feet high, though one is said to be the exact height of Christ.
Tremendous columns support the low Gothic roof, the vaulting of which hardly exceeds the height of the arches between the nave and aisles.
From a few feet above the floor rise the long narrow windows of the apse reaching up beyond the base of the vaulting and giving an idea of immense height.
The nave is very fine and has the same low vaulting that is a feature in the Cathedral; its walls, too, are cracked and held together by iron girders.
He then stuck some wooden posts in the middle of the Thames, as an impediment to Caesar, who, in the plenitude of his vaulting ambition, laid his hands on the posts and vaulted over them.
The vaulting ambition of this man, who turned Somersets over every obstacle that fell in his way, rendered his new title very appropriate.
He never turned his back upon any of his children, except at leap-frog, in which he would often indulge with his sons, who had little of that vaulting ambition for which their parent was conspicuous.
The candle flared for the last time, illuminating the vaulting of the roof, and the fresco of Mercury above the treasure-house door.
Frank Simpson was assisting one of the janitors in setting up the new hurdles, and Sid was testing his vaulting pole.
Then there'll be a pole-vaulting contest, and probably a hundred-yard dash.
Phil Clinton easily distanced the others at the pole vaulting contest, Red Warren being second and Holly Cross third; while at putting the sixteen pound shot, Dan Woodhouse won, with Frank Simpson second and Sid as a good third.
The woodwork of the vaultingand lantern took longer time; but this also was quite complete in 1342.
The roof of the cloister was therefore of wood; but there are remains of vaultingto the west of the prior's door, so perhaps the western alley had a stone roof.
Its single defect strikes the beholder at once: the span of the roof is too broad and the vaulting too depressed for the size of the chapel.
The wooden vaulting of the octagon springs from capitals on the same level as those of the great arches.
The weight of the lantern, it need hardly be said, is not borne, though it looks like it from below, by the vaulting that we see.
He removed the roof, destroying the vaulting of the choir, nave, and north transept, together with the centre tower, selling them as so much building stone.
The ornamental vaulting of the chapel is among the finest in the country--its massive pendants being 7 feet long.
Some of the vaulting still remains in the south aisle and also above the site of the high altar.
The vaulting here is still intact, and covers a nave of two aisles, divided by a range of columns.
Work of the 12th and 14th centuries are evident in the vaulting of the nave and aisles.
The original vaulting fortunately still remains over the chapels at the east end of the church.
Near him were two Pixies belonging to the Vaulting Legion who had taken refuge from the flood within the tower, and whose bright eyes shone out of the deep shadows wherein they lay.
He seized the dragline, which the vaulting legionaries always stretch behind them when they jump, and gave it a stout tug as he faced about.
In the excitement, Polyphemus came quite near the ground, and barely escaped being lassoed by one of the Vaulting Legion.
Every footfall and every minute sound echoed noisily from the dark vaulting of the nave and chancel.
The noise of footsteps began to echo from the high vaulting of the roof.
Next, in the sections of the vaulting of the said church, which are five, he painted in like manner many scenes.
James in the Abbey of Settimo, in the chapel that is in the cloister, and dedicated to that Saint, on the vaulting of which he made the four Patriarchs and the four Evangelists, among whom S.
Giovanni, the pillars, and the vaulting were raised and completed in fifteen days and no more.
Truly this work was vast, of great cost, and difficult to execute, and above all the vaulting of the tribune, made in the shape of a pear and covered without with lead.
Vaulting from their foaming steeds they tied them to the stockades of the little fortress, which they entered in a body.
Vaulting into the saddle, he again stretched out, and now skirted along the margin of a wood which seemed to mark the position of a river of considerable size.
We departed the ground without seeing Marbonna; and previous to vaulting over the picket, feed our pretty guide after a fashion of our own.
We went up to the latter; and giving the usual salutation, were on the point of vaulting over the bamboos, when they turned upon us angrily, and said we could not enter.
In a word, Gothic vaulting and tracery have been studiously made like to boughs of trees.
It may be that it originated from the quadripartitevaulting of the Normans, the segmental groins of which, crossing diagonally, produced to appearance the pointed arch.
The vaulting itself also being panelled, to resemble elaborate stone fretwork, rather detracts from the general beauty of the building, being but a meretricious kind of ornamentation, and quite unworthy the building.
It is in the form of a cross, with a dome, the vaultingsupported by twelve fluted and inlaid columns, richly gilded and painted.
The first view of the interior is very striking, the vaulting being supported by fifty-two exceedingly lofty clustered columns, dividing the church into a nave and two aisles each side.
I heard one or two services here, and thought both organ and acoustics very fine, the noble vaulting carrying back each note, grandly swelling, to the entrance porch.
Vaulting into the passage, I heard strange sounds--singing, but not only singing.
The pole vaulting came to an end with a record-breaking accomplishment of nine feet two inches by a member of the upper middle class, and the running high jump began.
These noises were produced by some young peasants who had secreted themselves between the vaulting and the roof.
The arms of England, of Talbot, and other noble families that are English, are emblazoned on the keys of the vaulting ribs.
Only the chapter-house remains of the original abbey, a structure of the fourteenth century, the vaulting sustained by marble pillars.
It underwent, however, additions in 1157, when the curious vaultingwas added.
The vaulting of the church was begun in 1304, and completed by Hugh de Châtillon in the middle of the fourteenth century.
However small and simple the music-room may be, it should always appear as though there were space overhead for the notes to escape; and some form of vaulting or doming is therefore more suitable than a flat ceiling.
It would also be a pity to take down the vaulting with its various devices, including the arms, etc.
The part of the vaulting from the altar to the east window bears none but pious ornaments: the several instruments of the Saviour's Passion, including S.
Under the tower the vaulting is of wood, dating from 1634.
The defaced front-screen and the oak-panelling all round are very rich examples of late Gothic, and the stone vaulting has been compared in point of elaboration with that in the chapel of Henry VII.
The early vaulting of this chapel has, between the ribs, figures of seraphim, which are very fresh in colour.
The third crypt, which is narrow like the second, is rectangular in shape, and its vaulting rests on columns.
The vaulting of the presbytery, which is of timber carved to imitate stone, is remarkable for its very fine and brilliantly coloured bosses, forming a quite unique collection of designs.
