Its intricately carved wooden fascia is supported on granite columns.

Life-size elephant and other creatures carved in granite ; Mahabalipuram, India.

Until the early 18th century granite could only be carved by hand tools with generally poor results.

It is made of black granite, and has 163 names ( as of 2011 ) carved into it.

The portico of this building has ten enormous atlantes, approximately three times life-size, carved from Serdobol granite, which were designed by Johann Halbig and executed by the sculptor, Alexander Terebenev.

In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque, usually made of granite, with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between.

It was designed by the architect of the hotel, E. M. Barry and carved by Thomas Earp of Lambeth from Portland stone, Mansfield stone ( a fine sandstone ) and Aberdeen granite.

The two granite rocks at this site are covered with petroglyphs presumably carved by ancient Plains Indians.

Designed by the Kruger brothers and carved by Paul Bronisch, the entrance to Hindenburg's crypt was dominated by two fourteen-foot sculptures of the Eternal Watch, known as the Ewige Wache, which were carved out of more than 120 tons of imported Konigsberg granite.

The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States.

The memorial is carved on the northwest margin of the Harney Peak granite batholith in the Black Hills of South Dakota, so the geologic formations of the heart of the Black Hills region are also evident at Mount Rushmore.

With great persistence, simple mouldings can and have been carved into granite, for example in many Cornish churches and the city of Aberdeen.

One, beautifully carved, showed Amenophis III in battle with Nubians and Syrians ; the other, of black granite, was over ten feet high, larger than any stela previously known ; the original text commemorated the building achievements of Amenophis and described the beauties and magnificence of the temple in which it had stood.

It features a large war memorial carved from Lacasse granite and designed by a famous Canadian sculptor, Elizabeth Wyn Wood.

The canyon was carved by glaciers out of granite.

By 1896, Grand Army Plaza sported four towering granite columns adorned with carved fasces and eagles at the base.

The walls are of gray Aswan granite, carved with characters from 120 different human scripts.

On the sides of Katahdin are four glacial cirques carved into the granite by alpine glaciers and in these cirques behind moraines and eskers are several picturesque ponds.

Wind, gravity, rainwater, snow, and ice-melt supplied rivers that ultimately carved through the granite mountains and eventually led to their end.

consists of two carved granite pillars, spanned by a carved horizontal granite transom.

Near Mount Yamanlar in İzmir ( ancient Smyrna ), where the Lake Karagöl ( Lake Tantalus ) associated with the accounts surrounding him is found, is a monument mentioned by Pausanias: the tholos " tomb of Tantalus " ( later Christianized as " Saint Charalambos ' tomb ") and another one in Mount Sipylus, and where a " throne of Pelops ", an altar or bench carved in rock and conjecturally associated with his son is found.

Only a small marble fragment, a carved rose excavated by William Stukeley, survives which is currently preserved in Stamford Museum. See below for the modern monument erected by Smith of Derby Group.

Begun soon after her death in 1930 and completed in 1934, the monument consists of statues of the couple and a small shelter, carved from Italian marble.

A second notable monument is the " Phoenix Column " ( shown in the header photograph above ), a Corinthian column carved from Portland Stone located centrally on Chesterfield Avenue, the main thoroughfare of the Park, at the junction of Acres Road and The Phoenix, the main entrance to Áras an Uachtaráin.

English church monuments | Marble monument to William Barrington designed by James Wyatt and carved by Richard Westmacott, in Shrivenham # Churches | St. Andrew's parish church, Shrivenham.

It was the home of Lady Ottoline Morrell ( 1873 – 1938 ), and in St. Mary's parish church there is a monument to her carved by the sculptor and typeface designer Eric Gill.

The original appearance of the monument is attested by contemporary coins of the period and showed that it took the form of a tree trunk mounted upon a cylindrical pedestal carved with metopes, triglyphs, and a series of stone shields.

The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II in the 13th century BC, as a lasting monument to himself and his queen Nefertari, to commemorate his alleged victory at the Battle of Kadesh, and to intimidate his Nubian neighbors.

" They then transferred the measurements of the model, adjusting them for the larger proportion, to the foam that once carved became the monument.

George Partridge Colvocoresses designed the monument — a cross with carved icicles hanging from it that sits atop a cairn.

Also notable is the Celtic Hypogeum, a subterranean series of halls carved in the rock in ancient times, whose destination remains unclear: uses as either Celtic funerary monument or a Roman ( Lombard ) jail has been proposed.

It is carved into the rock of a stone lozenge near the main entrance of the prehistoric Newgrange monument in County Meath, Ireland.

The granite monument near Dupont Circle was carved by Vincent Illuzzi of Barre, Vermont.

* Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt ( 1805 – 1875 ) early female physician ; her monument, a statue of Hygieia, was carved by Edmonia Lewis

The following year, he carved a stone monument to the discoverer of penicillin, Sir Alexander Fleming, for a park in San Sebastián ( it subsequently disappeared, but a new version has been installed on the promenade at San Sebastián bay ).

Crazy Horse is commemorated by the incomplete Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota near the town of Berne — a monument carved into a mountain, in the tradition of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial ( on which Korczak Ziółkowski had worked with Gutzon Borglum ).

The monument is heavily carved with a variety of military and Masonic symbols, as well as classical Greek motifs.

Among extensive information carved into the monument is this quote, " Of his country Wooster said, ' my life has ever been devoted to her services from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this — a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life '.

This 30 m ( 100 ft ) sculpture was carved by deGarthe as " a lasting monument to Nova Scotian fishermen.

The earliest records we have are of the Kulku or Kulha, an Asian community speaking an agglutinative language, the name being carved into a monument left by the Urartu king Sardur II, who conquered the area for his kingdom ( 765-735 BC ).

Although many monument types received this form of art the majority is carved on Neolithic passage graves.

The Council also erected a carved stone monument bench on Central Lane ( beside The Central Hotel ) in August 2010 as a mark of respect listing the names of the ten people who lost their lives.

In the south chapel is a strange wall monument of carved and painted alabaster, showing a knight in armour kneeling between his two wives and eleven children.

The monument is neoclassical in design, taking the form of a victory column carved of Hallowell white granite.