Just like a corbelled arch and a keystone arch are both defined as arches. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Jackson, Day 2.] Reference
Comparing a corbelled arch opening to a slab and lintel opening would be unlike to unlike. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Jackson, Day 2.] Reference
The other angles have narrow buttresses running up to circular bartizans boldly corbelled out from the battlements. From Wordnik.com. [The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains] Reference
The side, front and rear walls of the furnace should be corbelled out to cover about one-third of the total grate surface. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference
· Rubble (undressed stone) for foundations, floors, walls, or even corbelled roof structures, in all cases with or without mortar. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
In the middle of the picture, the first corbelled-out course of green bricks is partly set, while further back several courses are laid. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
The larger buildings were designed in a curious monolithic style, with thick, squat, tapering columns supporting heavy lintels and wedge-shaped corbelled arches. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
Most castles and churches had wooden roofs as the technique for making the corbelled (or other) stone roofs was complicated and put a lot of weight on the walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Rock of Cashel, Ireland « Colleen Anderson] Reference
A portion of the triforium wall, a piece of the string-course over the main arcade, and the corbelled vaulting shaft in the angle as high as the top of the triforium, are also parts of the original structure. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
Up the angle formed by choir and transept runs a sort of excrescence of masonry that blossoms out, so to speak, into an extraordinary complication of corbelling near the top, and is itself corbelled away at the bottom. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
The lower part is boldly corbelled out and the junction of the octagon with the pier shafts is well managed, but the upper open-panelled part is rather too definitely cut off from the lower by the battlemented cornice. From Wordnik.com. [The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains] Reference
The 19 metre long inner passage leads to a cruciform chamber with a corbelled roof. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Giant's Tomb consists of a long rectangular chamber of upright slabs roofed by corbelled masonry (Fig. 18). From Wordnik.com. [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference
In this case they were corbelled as far as possible and the open space still left was covered with long flat slabs. From Wordnik.com. [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference
Tower, though in a most ruinous condition, exhibits high architectural beauty in its moulded arches and corbelled passages. From Wordnik.com. [Windsor Castle] Reference
This same juxtaposition of the two also occurs on a slab which closed the top of a corbelled chamber at Collorgues in Gard. From Wordnik.com. [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference
It is far better preserved than the rest, but the two niches have lost their statues, and a corbelled tower was destroyed in. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rouen] Reference
The tomb's massive igloo-style dome was made of 33 rings of corbelled (gradually projecting) stones, each weighing about 5 tons. From Wordnik.com. [HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News] Reference
There is a building on the bridge corbelled out on a specially built pier of the bridge, the use of which is not at first sight evident. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing England] Reference
The mînâr was built by Hindoo masons, and, in consequence, some of the details, notably its overlapping or corbelled arches, are Hindoo. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference
Above these rich and delicate canopies, with foliage and fan-tracery springing from corbelled heads, runs an exquisitely sculptured frieze. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum] Reference
In the apse-like ends of the elliptical rooms the horizontal courses are corbelled, i.e. each course projects slightly forward over the last. From Wordnik.com. [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference
In fact, the genuine vault is absent from Egyptian temple architecture, although in the Temple of Abydos false or corbelled vaults (cf. page 49) do occur. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
A very remarkable mound in Calvados (Fig. 11) was found to contain no less than twelve circular corbelled chambers, each with a separate entrance passage. From Wordnik.com. [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference
The two niches on either side of the gallery contained figures of St. Mary and St. Peter; the niches are supported by corbelled heads of Edward III and Queen Philippa. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
No chim - chimneys, etc ney shall be corbelled from a wall more than the thickness of the wall, nor be hung from a wall less than twelve inches thick, nor rest upon wood. From Wordnik.com. [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference
The Treasury of Atreus at Mycenæ with its corbelled circular chamber and long rectangular corridor seems very little removed, except in size and finish, from the tombs of Gavr '. From Wordnik.com. [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference
A very heavy string-course runs round the upper story, and just above this, facing up the street, the tower carries a small oriel window, fluted and corbelled and carved about with stone heads. From Wordnik.com. [Essays of Travel] Reference
Immediately above the carving, at the intersection of the main arches, is a corbelled head, from which rises a triple vaulting-shaft with foliated capitals, on a line with the base of the clerestory. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum] Reference
It is especially remarkable for its tower, which, rising 308 feet in the air, overhangs the street nearly 6 feet, its front wall resting on the face of the powerfully corbelled cornice of the palace. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
A well-defined acropolis, with massive walls in which are passages covered by stones successively overhanging or corbelled until they meet. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
The ceiling was high, corbelled. From Wordnik.com. [Crusader Gold]
Arches, corbelled, 40. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
"corbelled" arch or vault. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
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