corbel

How To Use corbel In A Sentence

• We also gave it slate tiles and a new bargeboard which covered up the second-rate brick corbelling. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
• The artisans, profoundly influenced by the woodwork, create pillars with corbelling, showing tenon joints and exhibiting the style of wood carvers in their detailing.
• Characteristically, they feature pyramidal, domed or conical roofs built up of corbeled limestone slabs.
• Brightly colored and carefully manicured, the home's exterior almost looks like a house in a Disney movie: painted orange stone corbels surrounding turquoise doors and windows and clay-red roof tiles. The House Built By Chipmunks
• The second year included rowlock and bonded segmental arches; blocking, toothing, and corbeling; building and bonding of vaulted walls; polygonal and circular walls, piers and chimneys; fire-places and flues. One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America
• Inside the chamber, enormous rocks with smaller rocks jammed into the cracks to act as mortar form a corbeled ceiling, giving you the impression that you're in a small temple.
• The designers took advantage of the brick corbeling at the window heads and this recessed detail of the window surroundings, ‘explained the panel.’
• Internal buttresses in each of the corners support the corbelled roof.
• Bradford planning authority could legitimately have insisted that for part of such a high-profile city centre development the walls should be natural stone, with natural stone corbels supporting the guttering.
• At either end of the two tiers an ornament not unlike the ball-flower of the Decorated style is carried up the jamb, and a bold corbel-table runs up the sides of the gable, under the apex of which there is a trefoil panel, while the whole is crowned by an elaborate cross. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric