| 单词 | corbel |
| 例句 | He studied one by one the grotesque carvings of dwarfs that decorated the roof bosses, and the corbels finishing the doorway. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z I arrived in a large tomb chamber with a soaring corbelled ceiling. Tourists are trickling back to Egypt 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z This corbeled beehive dome with an aperture facing south acts as a camera obscura, throwing onto the whitewashed interior an image of forest, clouds and mountain peaks. Review: An Italian Valley Where Nature Meets Art 2010-08-06T13:00:00Z Stone, wood corbels, limestone, and Tuscan yellow stucco define the entrance and façade. Tour Baseball Star Randy Johnson’s Paradise Valley Manse 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Though it needed considerable love, he knew, largely thanks to an original marble fireplace with neo-Classical corbel detailing and an unusual wrought-iron spiral staircase, that it was where he wanted to be. An Elegant Notting Hill Flat Enlivened By Maximalist Flourishes 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Old English corbels, originally used as decorative supports, serve as the two large wooden end pieces. Colorful Cottage Courtyard 2013-05-13T15:50:07.330Z Longstaffe-Gowan also installed sculptures from Morgan’s collection, including a Roman sarcophagus, a Roman funerary stele and two Renaissance corbels, in the garden. Manhattan’s New Green Space Was J.P. Morgan’s Side Yard 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z At 11 inches tall, the classic creature can serve as an indoor wall corbel or bookend. Great holiday gifts from Seattle shops and businesses | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Engravings can be admired on corbels and finials across the UK, remnants of a time when keeping up with the neighbours meant throwing lavish parties and displaying one's riches. The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z “It would have been a shame to lose all of the trim, the corbels the drop work and rip it down and make a cookie-cutter building.” New Hampshire couple to restore mansion built in 1872 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Because of the material’s lightness, the cork walls and roof, made of several distinct corbelled pyramid-like shapes, were assembled by hand. Home is where the cork is: UK designers present recyclable house 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z We descended alone into the pharaoh’s burial chamber, where the twins’ voices echoed off the high corbelled ceiling. Into the pharaoh's chamber: how I fell in love with ancient Egypt 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z "In Kilpeck there are a number of corbels missing, and there's a story that an old chap said he was ordered by the vicar's wife to chop some of the corbels off," Mr Harding says. The naked women adorning Britain's churches 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z The drone made it easier to see into high-up crevices and peer at the figures on the corbels, the brackets just under the roofline. A 12th Century Relic Meets a 21st Century Technology 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Features: The 1908 semidetached Victorian rowhouse on Capitol Hill has high ceilings, decorative crown molding, ornate fireplace mantels, elegant corbels and stylish wainscoting. Homes you can buy for $3 million 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z “We used a corbelling system which allows for a simple assembly of one block on top of the other,” said Oliver Wilton, director of technology at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London. Home is where the cork is: UK designers present recyclable house 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z More than $3 million has been invested in the fabled structure since the conflagration that took its roof and charred an ornate interior that featured gold-leaf, plaster corbels and an angel-topped proscenium. Restoration of South Dakota opera house making strides 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Nearly completed, the exteriors of the townhouses are brick with corbeled cornices and steel window lintels and sills. On ABC news anchor’s former estate, expansive townhouses with Potomac views 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Oh, and Meigs influenced that fetching little brick house, with its slate mansard roof, gently arched windows and decorative corbels. What’s the story on the ‘haunted’ abandoned house behind Sibley Hospital? 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z Architectural salvage, such as corbels and columns rescued from porches, is incredibly popular now. Central Indiana couple’s salvage barn increasingly popular 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z And to create a separate sleeping area, he pushed for a low wall with an ornamental corbel. Edward Hibbert on His West Village Studio 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z In the largest houses, the stairwells are joiner’s poems of raking architrave, barley twist, corbel and column-newel. Strolling Along East London's Fournier Street 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The interior will feature dry stone walls made of Cotswold stone, and a corbelled roof. Burial mound building work begins 2014-01-11T18:24:16Z But he never did; and the mouldering traceries, the lattices long empty of glass, and the worm-eaten corbels of oak grey with age went on decaying all that fine July. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z Other places are the arches, chiefly of doorways; bosses of groining, and the horizontal corners of pillar plinths; exteriorly, the gargoyles are most full of meaning, seconded by the corbels of the corbel-table. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z The ends of the hood-mould are generally stopped on a corbel, plain or carved with heads in European churches, but in those of central Syria terminating in scrolls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The French architects, however, project their piers on immense corbels, and then sink their windows with deep external reveals, so that no benefit accrues to the room, so far as the increased light is concerned. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Oriel, ō′ri-el, n. a portico or recess in the form of a window built out from a wall, supported on brackets or corbels—distinguished from a bay window. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z To avoid much unnecessary timber, the secondary beam forms were supported at the ends on reinforced concrete corbels cast on the primary beams. ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. 2012-01-02T03:00:24.717Z The constant presence of Satan and his satellites on capital and corbel, arcade and misericorde, is to be explained by the exceedingly strong belief in their active participation in mundane affairs in robust physical shapes. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z Sometimes, however, a parapet or pierced balustrade was carried on the corbel table enclosing the gutter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z In some cases there is a book-ledge corbelled out on the east jamb of the window inside, which has puzzled antiquaries, but which has not otherwise received a satisfactory explanation. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z These figures were always represented with corbels or baskets on their heads. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z The Torres de Cuarte are drum towers, similarly flanking a gateway; in this case the parapet is itself borne on corbels and machicolated. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Norman work has frequently some very grotesque heads in corbel tables and tower corners, to the odd appearance of which the decay by weather has no doubt much contributed. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z In medieval work the gutter rested partly on the top of the wall and partly on corbel tables, and the water was discharged through gargoyles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The corbels of the round-headed arches are composed of heads of animals and demons, and the arches themselves are beautifully inlaid with geometrical designs. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Hence those projecting pieces of stone or wood which support the roofs of our churches, as well as other buildings, have received the name of corbels. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z Its Chipchase Castle. roof is built on corbels, and it has openings through which to throw down stones or scalding water upon an enemy. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z Note corbel of overlapping bricks which stops cornice. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z The corbels of the arches of these two doorways are interesting. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z In the alterations he carried out, the battlements and the corbel tables under them were spared. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Without their tenants, they are ridiculous forms of ornamentation, for the corbel—or bracket, has no meaning unless it is intended to support a figure, nor its canopy, unless intended to shelter and protect one. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z She was apparently seated in some church or chapel, for over her head was a grotesque Gothic corbel, and the polished oak of a sombre-looking organ was visible in the back-ground. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Considering the gigantic dimensions of its central chamber and gallery, both having corbelled ceilings, it was a truly unique monument, which the government should have been solicitous to transmit unimpaired to future generations. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The bosses where the ribs intersect are also worthy of attention, and the ribs rise from very richly-carved and deeply-moulded corbels. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z Even into the sculptured heads of the corbels supporting the banquet-hall roof the poet strikes life:— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The frieze was composed of a tricusped arcade with small columns carried on corbels with carved heads. Ypres and the Battles of Ypres 2011-05-27T02:00:14.743Z Much remains to delight the eye; flying buttresses, clerestory windows, corbels, capitals, and mouldings, some half buried in the rank grass and nettles. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Then come twelve other courses, only 0.40 high, and rising in corbels so as to form a series of regular projections on the interior of 0.12. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Otherwise, we find the same central pillar, from which similar vaulting ribs spring, with corbels in the walls to receive them. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z Fan-tracery Vaulting, Gloucester Cathedral Fan-tracery, in architecture, elaborate geometrical curved work, which spreads over the surface of a vaulting, rising from a corbel and diverging like the folds of a fan. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z These statues, some of which were restored in the 19th century, rested on a corbel apparently supported by a small figure bearing the coat-of-arms of the sovereign represented. Ypres and the Battles of Ypres 2011-05-27T02:00:14.743Z Here and there the oak beams are carved, and grinning man or snarling monster regards you from corbel or boss. Hospital Sketches 2011-02-16T03:00:37.920Z The so-called “bee-hive” cell, which goes back to pre-Christian times, was built of rough stone rubble without mortar, and roofed in the same manner by corbelling over the courses of masonry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Corbelling.—A series of mouldings doing the same duty as a corbel; a row of corbels. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Above them, all round the cloisters, a series of small blind Norman arcades rested upon delicately carved corbels—charming and unusual detail. Glories of Spain The moon temporarily clouded over by the autumnal fog made the corbels and gargoyles and sculptured figures above the cloisters take on a grotesque vivacity, as the vapors curled around them. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Three courses of brick are corbelled to make the capping of the chimneys. Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia The central octagon is covered with a lofty dome with immense corbel buttresses of vigorous and fine design. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Corbel Table.—A row of corbels supporting an overhanging parapet or cornice. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance A richly corbelled cornice crowns the structure, above which a spire was projected by Giotto, but never carried out. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The square tower is crowned by an octagon middle stage, rising above which is a balcony, projected on corbels from the face of the tower. Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield All the doorways mentioned above have cornices, and in those at Palmyra and Baalbec richly carved friezes with side corbels. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" A small church at Rosheim in Alsace is quite Lombardic in its exterior design, the pilaster strips and arched corbel tables being almost identical. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Oriel.—A window projecting like a bay or bow window, not resting on the ground but thrown out above the ground level and resting on a corbel. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance An octagonal tower of two storeys rises above the corbelled eaves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" I know not whether they call those things that sustain their horns gibbets or corbels,... but I venture to say Saint Elizabeth did not get to heaven by wearing such things. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) Above them were the oaken corbels set, Of angels reaching hands that never met, Where in the spring the swallows came to build. King Cole They are in three tiers, the two lowest consisting of bas-reliefs, the upper tier with life-size figures in niches, resting on corbels. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Monsters gaped and grinned from the water-spouts, little figures or strange animals twisted in and out of the foliage at angles and bosses and corbels. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Above this they are divided into storeys by brick cornices carried on stone corbels, generally taken from ancient buildings, the lower storeys with blind arcades and the upper storeys with open arcades. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" But what about those 'exquisite oriels,' those famous fireplaces, those stairways, those celebrated ceilings, and corbels—whatever they are? The Brightener It springs from a corbelled head, from which foliate four cinquefoiled panels. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The carving of the capitals, corbels and other decorative work was all done by Italian artists, under the direction of some architect whose name is not known. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Dormer windows rich and picturesque, and high brick chimneys are also employed; so are bow windows, often carried on concave corbels of a clumsy form. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance The corbels carrying balconies in Italy and France were sometimes of great size and richly carved, and some of the finest examples of the Italian Cinquecento style are found in them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" The southern doorway is quite denuded, and even its buttresses rise without as much as a corbel to soften their lines. Cathedrals of Spain The gable is filled with an arcade, the central member of which is corbelled off to make room underneath for three little lancet windows which light the parvise chamber within. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See 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. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers These are often capped by pointed roofs; and the corbels which carry them, and which are always of bold, vigorous character, are frequently enriched by a kind of cable ornament, which is very distinctive. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Throughout England, in half-timber work, wood corbels abound, carrying window-sills or oriels in wood, which also are often carved. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Its three vaults are differently arched, the ribs not being carried down against the side walls to the floor, but met by broad corbels supported by curious figures. Cathedrals of Spain Third Pier.—Woman with a bandage across her face. 90Above this cap the corbel consists of a seated figure, naked, with distorted mouth and an agonised expression. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See It has been modernised, but the three apses are untouched externally, crowned with a corbelled arcuated cornice, the centre one being the largest. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia It is built round a great quadrangle, and has square towers at the four corners, each relieved by small corbelled angle turrets. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance A “corbel table” is a projecting moulded string course supported by a range of corbels. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" They are crowned by a corbel table and a high, embattled parapet, that yielded protection to the soldiers occupying the platform immediately behind, which communicated with the passage around the city walls. Cathedrals of Spain The undercroft passage, with its curious corbels and bosses, was probably also a part of the old work then completed, as it contains one "toothache" head. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Beams resting on corbels beneath the windows cross the nave, while the aisles have a flat panelled roof, with bosses at the intersections of the framing. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia Turret.—A small tower, sometimes rising from the ground, but often carried on corbels and commencing near the upper part of the building to which it is an appendage. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Sometimes these corbels carry a small arcade under the string course, the arches of which are pointed and trefoiled. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" A small additional columnar section is seen in the angles of the piers, supporting in an awkward position, with the assistance of the interposed corbel, molded, diagonal vaulting ribs. Cathedrals of Spain The roof is of pitch pine, the timbers being supported by plain corbels. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time A string with corbelled arches below divides the stories, and the square portion terminates with a balustrade in the usual manner. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia On the corbels are not only represented grotesque heads, but some of the simplest heraldic charges, as the chief, chief indented, pale, bend, bendlets undy, fess, saltier, crosses of various kinds, chevron, &c. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy As a rule the corbel table carries the gutter, but in Lombard work the arcaded corbel table was utilized as a decoration to subdivide the storeys and break up the wall surface. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" The Moat Hall is a large and ancient tower, notable for its narrow lights and cornice-like range of corbels. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel The whole is surmounted by a heavy cornice, in which, at intervals immediately over each corbel, are worked square mortise holes, forming sockets through which the poles of the awning passed. Architecture Classic and Early Christian The lowest story has also two windows on each side, but beneath three corbelled arches. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia Several of the sculptures on the corbels are close imitations of those upon the church of the Holy Trinity, at Caen. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy They too spring from corbels and are quite plain. Portuguese Architecture The space is first narrowed by two corbelled courses of stone and, above them, by three projecting courses of brick. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture Two courses of corbelling also appeared on the two chimneys located at the back and in the center section of the building. The Fairfax County Courthouse A cornice of corbelled arches crowns the nave wall. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia C. First compartment of the nave from the west, showing the structure and disposition of the arches, and the very flat buttresses with a double projection, the first only equalling that of the corbels. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy Above the chapels are square-headed windows, and then a corbelled cornice. Portuguese Architecture Like the stairs in the Pammakaristos, this passage is very narrow, some 85 cm., yet the builders thought it necessary to corbel out five courses before venturing to throw a vault without centering. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture All five chimneys are corbelled with two courses of brick at the top, and with a single course of brick 11/2 feet below the chimney top. The Fairfax County Courthouse A moulding with three projecting corbels runs round the base of the apse vault. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia It has an open timber roof, the beams supported upon carved corbels. Our Italy The cornice, of which the frieze is adorned with eight masks, rests on corbels. Portuguese Architecture Those to the north and south still exist in a ruined condition, and many of the stone corbels which supported the beams remain in the walls. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture The cornice and chimney tops are corbelled, and there are iron cresting and finials on the ridge of the hipped roof. The Fairfax County Courthouse Along the aisle roof a carved cornice runs, and above the trefoiled pointed clerestory windows is an arched corbelled cornice. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia This made of blue and white ware with corbels of cherubs caught my attention. The Belovéd Vagabond The main cornice has two large corbels to each bay, and carries a picturesque balustrading within which rises a tile roof covering the dome and crowned by a small lantern at the top. Portuguese Architecture Below the dome arches the central area communicates with the surrounding ambulatory on the north, west, and south sides by large semicircular arches corbelled slightly out from the piers. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture Very curious are the corbels of the dripstones and the grotesquely carved gargoyles. Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch The side walls are divided into five spaces by piers; an arched corbelled cornice terminating in mouldings runs along them, and returns up the slope of the east wall. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia 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 One curious feature is the way the pilasters in the north-east corner are carried on corbels, so as to leave room for two doors, one of which leads into the chapter-house behind the chancel. Portuguese Architecture At this level are four carved stone corbels with notches on the upper side, evidently to take a wooden beam. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture Statues of Charles V, the Infanta Isabella, and others are on corbels. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders All the vaults are domical, and those of the nave spring from corbels carved in the style of Venetian fifteenth-century work. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia Upon Sunday scholars, from a Norman wall, looks down a hideous stone corbel. Highways and Byways in Surrey At the ends and between the tombs are square buttresses or pilasters ornamented on each face with renaissance corbels and canopies. Portuguese Architecture Above the four tiers of niches is a boldly corbelled cornice, like that in the chapel attached to the Pammakaristos. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture But nowadays ironwork, such as adorns a cheap bedstead, more often than not is substituted for the graceful balustrade, and some tawdry decoration, or coarsely-cut stone corbel, takes the place of the picturesque carved woodwork. India and the Indians And there, with the russet of an oakwood behind, rises a square huddle of buildings, a tall brick watch-tower, battlemented and corbelled in the midst, and a great bay-tree at each corner. The Spirit of Rome The anthem now pealed along the roof, lapping capitals, corbels, and pillars in a tide of sound that swept unresisted through the wide spaces of the cathedral. Border Ghost Stories The architrave is unadorned, the frieze has corbels set in pairs, and between the pairs curious shields and strapwork, and the cornice is enriched with dentils, egg and tongue and modillions. Portuguese Architecture On the exterior the apse shows three sides, crowned with a corbelled cornice. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture The sound whispered round amidst the statues of old knights and kings that stood upon corbels between the windows. The Fifth Queen Crowned The piscina and the three sedilia, which belonged to the altar at the end of the aisle, remain in the south wall, and there are corbels for statues on either side of the east window. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church The pinnacles of the Perpendicular tower are specially notable, while the gable-cross and corbels of the porch are of a kind rare in this part of the country. The Cornwall Coast The fourth story is finished by a globe-bearing parapet, within which the tower rises to another parapet much corbelled out. Portuguese Architecture The flat secondary arches crossing the chapel at each end are similarly supported on corbels. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture The roof was originally divided into 13 spaces by oak principals, very slightly arched, resting on stone corbels. The Care of Books A projecting gallery over gateways, or walls insufficiently flanked: being open at the bottom between its supporting corbels, it allows of defending the foot of the wall. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. In this doorway the innermost arch is of unusual form—a trefoil resting on corbels—and its edges are left square and plain. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric The pendentives with their cherub heads are carried by corbels in the corners, and the dome is divided by bold ribs, themselves enriched with carving, into panels filled with strapwork. Portuguese Architecture On the south side of the choir the bracket tomb or monument, so called from the effigy being placed on a corbel or projecting bracket, should be noted. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See In each bay without a window there is a row of blind arcading, which, like the mouldings of the arches by which the gallery passes through the wall piers, springs from carved corbel heads. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The corbels outside, beneath the roof, are carved with the hairy-bearded faces of conquered Franks and Saxons, who were thus set up to the perpetual derision of their clean-shaved Norman100 victors. The Story of Rouen This angle contains the tower staircase, which is lighted by a little window in the upper corbelling and is reached from the clearstorey gallery of the transept. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Of these the lower is Doric, of more slender proportions than usual, while the upper has no true capitals beyond the projecting entablature and corbels on the frieze. Portuguese Architecture The passage is covered by a stone vault of four bays, supported by heavy moulded ribs springing from corbels. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See Some corbels that helped to support the cloister roofs are still to be seen, projecting from the south wall of the church, and from Ernulf’s buildings. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See It is far better preserved than the rest, but the two niches have lost their statues, and a corbelled tower was destroyed in 1827, when shops were first put in. The Story of Rouen A cornice supports the ceiling, and on the west side there are also some rather inexplicable corbels. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Here all the lower mouldings of the cornice are carried round the corbels and the pilasters so that only the two upper are continuous, an arrangement which is anything but an improvement. Portuguese Architecture Above these rich and delicate canopies, with foliage and fan-tracery springing from corbelled heads, runs an exquisitely sculptured frieze. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum The king and queen corbel heads of this arch were once painted, and the colours are said to have been still tolerably fresh in 1840. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Figures of Angels holding Shields of Arms—each figure having a shield in front of its breast, are frequently sculptured as corbels in Gothic churches. The Handbook to English Heraldry At the north-east corner the vaulting springs from a Perpendicular corbel. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Columns with corbel capitals support a house on the right. Portuguese Architecture A fine and noteworthy feature in this church is the corbel table which runs nearly all round it. Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of Ss. Mary & Ethelfleda The square back to it, and the spaces beneath the corbels, on which the Church and Synagogue figures stand, are filled with noteworthy diapers. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See In Conrad’s choir it was placed upon the vault of the south transept; afterwards it was set up upon a large corbel of stone, over the arch of St. Michael in the same transept. The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See Here, upon the capital of each column, rests a sort of compound rectangular plinth, from which project three corbels, hollowed underneath and having little blocks beneath their overhanging edge. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric The corbelled support is made up of a great many different mouldings, most of them enriched in different ways. Portuguese Architecture The arches of the main arcade spring from corbels on the sides of these great pillars, so that it seems as if the triforium gallery were hanging beneath the arches which spring below the clerestory. Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of Ss. Mary & Ethelfleda The arch of the recess, springing from corbels of elaborately carved foliage, retains traces of colouring, and the wall within is painted with green foliated scroll-work on a dark red ground. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The altars are monstrously showy, the walls and buttresses are coloured, and even the interesting, sculptured figures beneath the corbels have been carefully tinted. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 The westernmost pendentive on either side rests on a Perpendicular corbel carved with delicate foliage. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric These pilasters have no capitals, but instead well-moulded corbels, carved with griffin heads, uphold the entablature, and, by a happy innovation, on the projection thus formed are pedestals bearing short Corinthian columns. Portuguese Architecture Within, the roof, richly carved and gilded, rests on a carved wall-plate, supported by angel corbels, and most exquisite is the carving of the rood-screen, which has also been gilded and coloured. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts The second story contains between its lighter engaged columns, over the four side doors, niches with corbels below, destined to carry statues as their inscribed bases indicate. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration There is another peculiarity, too, here, in that the vaulting of the roof springs from corbels which rest directly on the capitals of the piers. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire The corbels are quite in Archbishop Roger’s manner, and indicate that these strengthening arches, and therefore the blocking walls from which they spring, are of his period. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric The arches opening from the aisles into the transept chapel are lower still, and rest, not on capitals, but on corbels. Portuguese Architecture Each of the large corbels springs at its lowest point from the sculptured grotesque figure of a man or animal. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys The ceiling of the church—the wreck of the Tudor open-worked timber roof—had been "pared down to a common pediment covering," supported on the heads of cherubim as corbels. Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less At the west end of the building are two half-figures, male and female, like the figure-heads of ships, which serve as corbels for the vaulting of the roof. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire When, therefore, the vaulting here was rebuilt, it had to be adapted to the shortened space, and the groin-ribs, which are very much of Archbishop Roger’s pattern, spring from Perpendicular corbels carved into faces. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric On the jambs, under the renaissance band of carving, are two statues one above the other on Gothic corbels but under renaissance canopies. Portuguese Architecture The body of the church and transepts are covered with pointed barrel vaults, with ribs at intervals springing from small corbels, and the whole is roofed with overlapping stone flags. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys A difference will be observed in the corbels supporting the mouldings of the eastern and western arches. Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less The north-east pier that supports the tower bears a plain corbel, supporting what is supposed to be the remains of an oak case for the Saunce-bell or Sanctus-bell. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire It is of gritstone, and behind the organ-bellows there remains a corbel like those of the cross-arch that props the vaulting in the corresponding bay of the north aisle. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric The buttresses, pinnacles and corbel table are much the same as before, but the parapet is much more elaborate and more like French flamboyant. Portuguese Architecture St. Boswell's Church, Roxburghshire, has been entirely rebuilt, but has some relics of carved corbels and other fragments of Norman date. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys There is a sloping hipped roof to the window, and a broad moulded corbel below it. Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less “Here you, Strake, don’t stand grinning there like a corbel on an old church.” Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea The floor is of brick, and the roof, which is almost flat, has been much renovated, but retains its original massive cross beams and wooden corbels. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Half-way up on the west side is a small window with a battlemented balcony in front projecting out on three great corbels; higher up are plain belfry windows. Portuguese Architecture There appears to have been a chancel; the ancient corbels at N. parapet survive, and the raggle of the original roof is seen against the E. side of the tower. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Pointed oval: St. Bartholomew standing on a corbel, in the right hand a knife, in the left hand a long cross. Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less It was a curious receptacle, having been originally a corbel from the bottom of a groin of the old building, and represented an evil-looking grotesque head. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp The roof is entirely modern, and the shields on its corbels bear the arms of the chief promoters of the last restoration. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric There is a good vault springing from corbels, but the clerestory windows have been replaced by large semicircles. Portuguese Architecture The buttresses at the angles are crowned with circular turrets, which have been finished with a projecting parapet, the corbels for carrying which still survive. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys In the remarkable sculptures on the corbels in the octagon are representations of two scenes that are unintelligible without this account; it is necessary, therefore, to summarise it here. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See “Like your tobacco-jar?” the engineer said, pointing to the old carven corbel. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp Between this rib and the tracery is another rib springing on the north side from a bunch of foliage and on the south from a grotesque corbel. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Of these the lower stands on a Gothic corbel under a renaissance canopy, and the upper, standing on the canopy, has over it another tall canopy Gothic in style. Portuguese Architecture The S.W. porch is one of the most striking features of the structure, and its interior is roofed with pointed barrel vaulting, having ribs springing from carved corbels. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys The character of Northwold's triforium windows and the corbel table below the parapet may be still seen in two bays on the south side. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See White pigeons hovered or perched on niche and corbel. Brother Copas Along the walls the arches spring, not from corbels, but from short strings of the same pattern with the impost-moulding on the pillars—a pattern not of very early character. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Some distance from the top it becomes octagonal, with the square fortified by corbelled balconies projecting far out over the corners. Portuguese Architecture The parapet is plain and rests on simple corbels. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Below the parapet is a good corbel table. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See Beneath the parapet, instead of a corbel table, there is a deep hollow, with running leaves, and small ball flowers at intervals. Ely Cathedral Aisle and clerestory both show a plain parapet and corbels. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The cornice is partly carried on corbels as in the Serra church, but here the effect is much better. Portuguese Architecture The lower story has the round arch and vaulting ribs supported on corbels, projected from the round face of the piers. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Between the window ranges are arcades of short, deep, trefoiled lancets; at the top below the parapet and corbel table are five quatrefoils in circles, one not pierced. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See It rests on corbels, each alternate one being carved with grotesque heads, and is protected by a parapet pierced in quatrefoils. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See There were originally four heads at the ends of the corbels under these quatrefoils, but the southernmost is broken away. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Only the entrance door is adorned with a Corinthian column on either side; its straight head rests on well-carved corbels, and above it is a large inscribed tablet upheld by small boys. Portuguese Architecture The chancel has one small window on the south side, and is vaulted with bold diagonal groin-ribs, enriched with chevron ornaments and springing from grotesque corbels. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Two flying buttresses rise from the corners of the nave and transept aisles to the corbel table of the clerestory range. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See The only parts remaining at the present day are the grotesque carved corbels, and the angels. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See The whole is crowned by a triple frieze of leaves, Tudor roses, and quatrefoils, at a height little short of the corbels which support the arches of the roof. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See In shape it is a half-octagon set diagonally, and is upheld by circular corbelling. Portuguese Architecture Two lofty windows remain and traces of a third, and between them are the plain chamfered corbel whence sprung the open roof. The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book Revised Edition, 1890 Below the parapet here is a characteristic corbel table. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See In the north wall of the chancel is the priests' door, now walled up, and the corbels and springers of the original chancel arch built by Pudsey. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See Above this is a corbel table of heads and mouldings which interferes with the upper window mouldings. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See The small upper window between the columns is round instead of square, and the cornice is carried on large corbels. Portuguese Architecture The square billet, or corbel bole, used for supporting a blocking course. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. By the remains of corbels in the lower part of the wall we see that there was once a covered passage here, no doubt connecting the cloister with the chapter-house. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See Above the triforium is the clerestory, which contains one light to each sub-bay, and surmounting all is the vaulting, which springs from the piers and from grotesquely carved corbels between the triforium arches. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See The transept compartments differ from those of the nave by the addition of a flat buttress between each, which consequently breaks the continuity of the corbel table. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See The third story is finished with a fortified parapet resting on great corbels. Portuguese Architecture This was carried out in 1902-1904, the footways being carried on granite corbels, on which are mounted cornices and open parapets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" The topmost stone of this inner jamb is enlarged into a corbel to support the lintel, and is carved with a large face. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See It rests on corbels, each alternate one being carved with a grotesque head. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See The end of the south aisle is decorated with corbels and parapet, like the choir, and with pinnacled buttresses. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See The height is divided into four nearly equal parts by well-moulded rings, encircling the whole pier, and in the middle of the second of these divisions are corbels and canopies for statues. Portuguese Architecture On the east side of these doorways there are corbel heads under the arches, and the walls of the platform are panelled. Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings Some corbels remain in the wall of the cathedral. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See These ribs spring from slender pillars between the windows and corbels heads on the other side: over the exterior of the windows are carved grotesque heads, of which we give some illustrations. Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See There is also an unbroken corbel table above the windows, of very expressive, life-like heads, no two of which are alike. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See At the ends are larger pilasters, and a cornice carried on corbels serves as canopy. Portuguese Architecture Above the stage was a bold corbel table, and this is the upper limit of the Norman work. Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings The account in the text of the miracle on the seventh corbel is condensed from this description. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See Wherever, for some constructive reason, a column is omitted against a wall, the capital becomes a corbel, carrying the arches. The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 04, April 1895 Byzantine-Romanesque Windows in Southern Italy To allow for the extension of the ritual choir the eastern and western arches of the crossing were carried on corbels. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See Perhaps the most successful feature of the design is the218 happy way in which corbels take the place of capitals on the lower pilasters of the front. Portuguese Architecture The upper storeys usually project beyond the ground-floor, and are supported on corbels or brackets of stone, which also are frequently carved. Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt On each of the corbels is a boldly carved scene from the career of S. Etheldreda; they commence at the north-west arch. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See In many cases the corbels alone are used, and an arcaded corbel course becomes the favorite termination of a wall in the place of a classic entablature. The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 04, April 1895 Byzantine-Romanesque Windows in Southern Italy First small separate heads began to obtain, as corbels, and were bracketed at the junctures of the arch-mouldings in the arcade and triforium of churches. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Now the inside is rather bare, with no ornament beyond the intricacy of the finely moulded ribs and the elaborate corbels from which they spring. Portuguese Architecture Half corbel and half decoration, they are curious things: one shows a young man, the other an older bearded man. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres Special attention may be given to some points in the sculpture of these corbels, every one of which is worthy of careful study. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See Finally the arches are omitted, and the corbels alone support the eaves. The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 04, April 1895 Byzantine-Romanesque Windows in Southern Italy The church, which dates from the fifteenth century, is a most beautiful brown brick building with delicate corbelling under the eaves. A Wanderer in Venice Above the finial of the ogee runs a corbel table supporting a pierced and crested parapet, a little different in design from the rest. Portuguese Architecture The upper part of the tabernacle, supported on very plain corbels, is occupied by a broad relief, at either end of which stand other winged angels, more boyish and confident than those below. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres He noted the solid simple lines of its long front and the beauty of its heavy mullions and the stone corbels beneath the roof. Secret Bread Rain or shine, hot or cold, you will find them corbeling around like Trojans. Love Conquers All Occasionally, when the building was wide, it was impossible to corbel the walls sufficiently to make them meet. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders In every case there is a square-headed moulded frame enclosing the whole window, the outer mouldings of this frame resting on small semicircular corbels, and having Gothic bases. Portuguese Architecture The mīnār was built by Hindoo masons, and, in consequence, some of the details, notably its overlapping or corbelled arches, are Hindoo. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official The cloister was of wood, supported, as usual, upon corbels, still remaining: the area within was the monks' cemetery, and some of the ancient gravestones here are still remembered. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 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. Vanishing England In this case they were corbelled as far as possible and the open space still left was covered with long flat slabs. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders Two like them have the ogee moulding, and at the sides a rounded moulding carried on corbels and finished above the window with a carved finial. Portuguese Architecture The lower courses are vertical; the seven others "corbel" forwards, until at the roof they are only twenty-one inches apart. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt This is of a type commonly found in Continental churches, the corbel with its conical sides harmonizing with the ten panels and base-mouldings of the box proper. The Old Franciscan Missions Of California Parapets were at the same time added above the Norman corbel tables. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See The roof is made either by laying large slabs across the tops of the sides or by corbelling with smaller slabs as at Stoney Littleton. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders The vaulting springs from corbels, and although the ribs are but simply chamfered they are well developed. Portuguese Architecture For five feet below the bottom of the corbels the newer part of the wall is continued. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Along the river by the stone embankment the ships are moored, with their cables passed through huge stone corbels or sculptured lions' mouths. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul The side-aisles are groined in imitation of stone, having bosses at the intersection of the ribs, with corbels for the ribs to rise from. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 472, January 22, 1831 The roof is formed by corbelling the walls and finishing off with slabs laid across. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders At the left side is a small monument to the founder's memory; on a corbel stands a short column bearing an inscribed slab, and above the slab is a shield under a carved curtain. Portuguese Architecture Three courses below this is a simply moulded string-course, and immediately beneath is the cusped arcade supported on the course of detached moulded and shaped corbels. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Notice under the short spire a quaint corbel table. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End This work, with its difficulties and boldness, extending often for great distances on timber corbels inserted in the rock, is vividly described by Martini. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 The chamber is circular, and roofed partly by corbelling and partly by a large slab. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders The whole building is surmounted by brick battlements, everything else being of granite, resting on a good trefoil corbel table, and, as the roofs are perfectly flat, there are no gables. Portuguese Architecture The original corbel course of the parapet remains, but not the upper part of the parapet. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Note also the roof corbels, the windows, and the founder's niche. Somerset Above these windows, the tower, hitherto square, becomes gradually octagonal, springing from corbeled heads; till terminated by four octagonal pinnacles, and crowned by an octagonal moulded battlement. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832 The chambers are built of upright slabs and are roofed by corbelling. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders Outside, the chancel has good buttresses at the angles, and is crowned by that curious boat-like corbel table seen at Santarem and by a row of pyramidal battlements. Portuguese Architecture It has no corbelling and no arched and cusped work; it is merely a plain piece of walling, slightly overhung with a weathered coping at the top and a moulded string beneath. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Externally, note the fantastic corbel table round chancel. Somerset The ornaments of this key-stone are of a very elegant character: its foliated tracery, as well as the richness of the bosses, corbels, and other embellishments throughout the interior, are extremely beautiful. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832 In the passage the roof is of slabs laid right across, but the roof of the chamber is formed by corbelling. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders At each angle are plain buttresses, weathered back a few feet below the corbel table, above which stand eight octagonal pinnacles each with eight smaller pinnacles surrounding a conical stone spire. Portuguese Architecture The parapet has a corbel course similar to that on the two eastern bays of the presbytery aisle. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Note the corbels on either side of the chancel to support the Lenten veil, and some curious old seats. Somerset Weirdly, rotating our options, weighing odds; caught in bristling cyberspace or a stone corbelled chamber. Deadly Pollen It is roofed by the successive overlapping or corbelling of the upper courses. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders Above the door runs an arched corbel table on which stands the one large window which the church possesses. Portuguese Architecture The space between each corbel is bridged over by small single stones cut out to the shape of a semicircular arch. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Note corbels and scale work on S. external wall, and in the interior the small Norm. window. Somerset If you wish to throw out any bold projection, you may support it on a long and sloping corbel of brickwork. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 A doorway just large enough to be entered with comfort leads through the thickness of the wall into a round chamber roofed by corbelling, with the assistance sometimes of one or more pillars. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders The nave is Perpendicular, solid and plain; the roof quite modern, though the corbels that supported the old one, carved with representations of angels singing and playing, were not disturbed. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter The other angles have narrow buttresses running up to circular bartizans boldly corbelled out from the battlements. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Note the two ancient corbel heads built into its W. front. Somerset If I were to thread the words, mosaics, pediments, spandrels, bas-reliefs, niches, enamels, corbels, all on a string in a sentence, the picture would still be incomplete. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent The walls in one case stood high enough to show, from the corbelling of their upper courses, that the huts were roofed in the same fashion as the nuraghi themselves. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders The corbels supporting the roof are carved with representations of Kings and Abbots. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter An upper chamber for the priest existed as late as 1607; the floor corbels still remain. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains A few corbels of an earlier church and a piece of interlaced carving are preserved in the S. porch. Somerset The pendentive upon which the prophet Jonah sits, descends and breaks the surface at the top, leaving a semicircular compartment on each side of its corbel. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti The smaller are of truncated conical shape, the circular chamber being entered by a low door and having a corbelled roof. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders Philosophy should not be a corbel erected on mystery to gaze upon it at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to curiosity. Les Misérables The finely carved corbel on which it stands was discovered among rubbish in the recess below. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains The nave retains its original 15th cent. roof supported on large corbels. Somerset Immediately below the corbel, and well detached from the squadrons of attendant saints, Christ rises from His throne. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti In the apse-like ends of the elliptical rooms the horizontal courses are corbelled, i.e. each course projects slightly forward over the last. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders The hall is roofless, but the corbels remain in a perfect state, and the windows on each side are well preserved. Yorkshire When you entered the quadrangle, you found one side solely occupied by the old hall, the huge carved rafters of whose oak roof rested on corbels of the family supporters against the walls. Vivian Grey The church is something of a deception, for a good Norm. doorway and an exterior corbel table prepares the visitor for the Norm. arches and arcading within; but these are entirely modern. Somerset I may refer in particular to the corbels, the recesses for statues, and the cornices. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti In each case we see a type of construction based on the use of large orthostatic slabs, sometimes surmounted by courses of horizontal masonry, with either a roof of horizontal slabs or a corbelled vault. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders On one of the stone corbels, which supported the beams, was the date 1463, without doubt the date of the construction of the building. The Dream To complete the beauty of the court, massive corbels have been thrown out from the piers, upon which statues of the greatest and most famous men in science are to be, or are already, placed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Note, in passing, the corbels with conventual figures. Somerset The stone corbels, pierced with holes to hold the enormous awning or velarium used in wet weather or extreme heat, remain intact. The Roof of France 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' Inis and Lough Crew. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders It closed no lantern--it obstructed no view--and its light ribs, springing from voluted corbels, bore at each intersection, an emblazoned escutcheon, or painted heraldic device. A Love Story Consequently they were abandoned, and their places were taken by projecting galleries of stone, supported, not on wooden beams, but on stone corbels, and it is this second stage in fortification which is called machicolation. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc There is still a fairly noticeable round tower—the Tour Marguerite—which has a pointed roof above its corbels, or perhaps they should be called machicolations. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 2 We begin at the Porte du Rhône, and skirt the older part of the walls on the northwest with their different style of corbels and machicoulis. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 This same juxtaposition of the two also occurs on a slab which closed the top of a corbelled chamber at Collorgues in Gard. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders The roof was flat, but had been richly gilt and painted, and was sustained by corbels of angels, divinely carved. Endymion That corbel cannot be in communion with me, for it is of stone; it is dumb and will not speak to me, though it compels me continually to ask it questions. On Something The blood in every quarter / through the leak-holes flowed, And out along the corbels / from men in death laid low. The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original In this fair glade were surely celebrate The nuptials of the year: and for her gift, Fair Flora, lightly loitering on the wing Of Zephyrus, tossed all her corbel out, Filling the air with bloom. Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. It is now used merely as a cemetery chapel, but it is picturesquely situated, and on the north wall the carved Norman corbels may still be seen. Yorkshire—Coast and Moorland Scenes Still on the spire the pigeons flutter, Still by the gateway flits the gown; Still on the street, from corbel and gutter, Faces of stone look down. The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" On the corbels of the north porch, looking towards the hills of Winchester, are Bishops Andrewes and Ken on the outside; on the inside, Wykeham and Waynflete. John Keble's Parishes The red tongues of fire rushed up and flickered from corbel to corbel and from tablet to tablet, and crept along the floor, setting in a blaze the seats and benches. The Secret Rose Opposite was a musicians' gallery of paneled oak, supported by corbels of stone placed about eight feet above the floor. Masters of the Guild It was a white palace of a house with a closed balcony supported on rude corbels and tightly shuttered. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel The large, open fireplace is built of clinker brick, and its facings extend from the floor to the ceiling; it has a wooden shelf supported on corbeled brackets. Three Acres and Liberty Such a construction is sometimes called a "corbelled" arch or vault. A History of Greek Art As the troopers moved about, the shadows began a fantastic dance among the corbels and the memorial tablets. The Secret Rose The Garter Tower, though in a most ruinous condition, exhibits high architectural beauty in its moulded arches and corbelled passages. Windsor Castle Corbets: the corbels, or capitals of pillars in a Gothic building; they were often carved with fantastic figures and devices. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems I will bet that you have fastened it to that great iron corbel, which stretches its frightful beak up there at the angle of the wall. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels On each floor the corbels of the doors and windows are adorned with carvings copied from those of the Genoese mansions. The Village Rector The Goblin was a very fine specimen of quaint stone carving, and lived up in the corbel on the wall opposite the niche of the little Saint. Reginald in Russia and other sketches If they gave a month or more to the carving of a single capital or corbel, he made no remonstrance. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 One of these corbels thus taken out the government photographer had in his possession. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 There was a slight wind, and I was glad to have nothing to do with the iron corbel. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels |
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