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A pedestal of blond sandstone, designed by landscape architect Daniel McKendry, bearing the inscription taken from the Aberdeen Breviary At Length Full of Sanctity and Miracles, Mirin Slept in the Lord at Paisley was erected in 2003 opposite St Mirin's Cathedral at the junction of Incle Street, Gauze Street and Glasgow Road in Paisley.
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pedestal and sandstone
A pedestal was built of local sandstone, and Vulcan was hoisted into place.
The monument was 20 meters high and consisted of an obelisk of red sandstone, a pedestal of grey marble and a base on three steps of red sandstone before the renovation of 1998-1999.
The foundations of the monument are in Runcorn sandstone, the pedestal is in granite, and the column itself is in Darley Dale stone.
pedestal and designed
The prototype consisted of a device attached to a wooden pedestal containing over a hundred wires, which would eventually be replaced with a single chip designed by Alcorn and Lee ; the chip had yet to be tested and built before the prototype was constructed.
Built on the structural foundation that supported the Perisphere of the 1939 – 1940 New York World's Fair, the Unisphere is centered in a large, circular reflecting pool and is surrounded by a series of water-jet fountains designed to obscure its tripod pedestal.
In addition to twin screw propellers, it was originally designed to mount a 12-inch muzzle loading gun on a revolving pedestal.
Sculpted by Peter Clodt, it has reliefs designed by Alexander Agin on all four sides of the pedestal representing scenes from the fables.
The pedestal is designed in the image of four clapperboards forming a box.
The bronze fountain represents the work of four sculptors: Louis Vuillemot carved the garlands and festoons around the pedestal, Pierre Legrain carved the armillary with interior globe and zodiac band ; the animalier Emmanuel Fremiet designed the eight horses, marine turtles and spouting fish.
Statue of Liberty pedestal, designed by Richard Morris Hunt
The Durrant Architecture firm of Dubuque designed a pre-caast four-column pedestal that was then placed in the plaza.
Stanford White designed the pedestal.
On the 199th anniversary of his birth, October 27, 2010, Mason was reburied for the 4th time in a newly-built vault in the pedestal beneath the bronze statue designed by Albert Weinert.
Though he disagreed with its central positioning, he designed a special pedestal for it.
The reliefs were later axed, and the architect Andreas Clemmensen designed the pedestal that bears the horse today.
Bird bath-A structure designed to hold water for birds to bathe in or drink, generally supported upon a pedestal.
The sculpture, designed by Ivan Zajec, stands on a pedestal, designed by Max Fabiani.
There are two reliefs at the pedestal, also designed by Zajec, which depict scenes from Prešeren's Poems.
Fountain in the pedestal of the Lateran obelisk, designed by Fontana
Dryak designed the ornate pedestal of this statue.
Here he enthroned himself like a reigning king on a grand seat in a mansion built with pearls, designed with a pedestal for conducting the Ukattheerppu ( the judgment ).
The pedestal is designed in the image of four clapperboards forming a box.
* Monument containing the heart of Henry II of France ( 1561 – 1562 ) Louvre-made in collaboration with Domenico del Barbieri ( who designed the pedestal ), Pilon was responsible for the eloquent sculpture of the Three Graces, executed from a single block of marble.
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According to William Burt, in his notes to Dartmoor, a Descriptive Poem by N. T. Carrington ( 1826 ), the original tomb consisted of a pedestal of three steps, the lowest of which was built of four stones each six feet long and twelve inches square.
The whole is surrounded by a circle of granite stones set on their edge which once surrounded the cairn — the rocks of which are now scattered around — that was originally built over a large kistvaen that still exists beneath the pedestal.
In 1902 William Crossing wrote that he had been told by an old moorman that some of the granite blocks from the tomb's pedestal had also been used to make a clapper bridge across a stream flowing into the River Swincombe near the farm.
Odin hanged them, and mounted the statue upon a pedestal, which by the marvellous skill of his art he made to speak when a mortal touched it.
Imhotep's historicity is confirmed by two contemporary inscriptions made during his lifetime on the base or pedestal of one of Djoser's statues ( Cairo JE 49889 ) and also by a graffito on the enclosure wall surrounding Sekhemkhet's unfinished step-pyramid.
* The Minerva Roundabout in Guadalajara, Mexico, located at the crossing of the López Mateos, Vallarta, López Cotilla, Agustín Yáñez and Golfo de Cortez avenues, features the goddess standing on a pedestal, surrounded by a large fountain, with an inscription which says " Justice, wisdom and strength guard this loyal city ".
Baccio Bandinelli took over the project of Hercules and Cacus from the master himself, but it was little more popular then than it is now, and maliciously compared by Benvenuto Cellini to " a sack of melons ", though it had a long-lasting effect in apparently introducing relief panels on the pedestal of statues.
The statue of Richard the Lionheart was lifted from its pedestal by the force of the blast, and its upheld sword bent, an image that was used as a symbol of the strength of democracy, " which would bend but not break under attack ".
Fundraising proved difficult, especially for the Americans, and by 1885 work on the pedestal was threatened due to lack of funds.
It was originally planned for a pedestal to indicate the location of the Hill but in the final version was indicated by a compass on the motion sensor.
There is a famous reference to the Colossus in the sonnet " The New Colossus " by Emma Lazarus, written in 1883 and inscribed on a plaque located inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty:
Image: YehliuTaiwan-HoneycombWeathering. jpg | The surface pattern on this pedestal rock is honeycomb weathering, caused by salt crystallisation.
It was surrounded by votive altars and the pedestal of statues.
A statue of Captain Burns stands on a 40 ton, Mount Airy granite pedestal in the center of the town's public square, which was given the official name of " Bailey Square " by the Yancey County Board of Commissioners on September 1, 1930.
The pedestal reads: " Erected by The Daughters of the Confederacy to the Confederate Soldiers of Macon County ".
The plaque was stolen by vandals in the 1980s, and an abbreviated version of the text was inscribed on the indentation left in the boulder, which remained until the 1990s, when a granite pedestal was added in front of the boulder, and the bust was moved to the top of the pedestal.
In 1909 a statue of Captain Burns was given to the town by his grandson, Walter Francis Burns, Sr. and was set on a granite pedestal in the center of the town square.
The marker consists of a large grey granite pedestal capped by a two-ton granite sphere four feet in diameter.
The sphere moves on its base a 1 / 4 to a 1 / 2 inch every year, as measured by the distance traveled by the unpolished spot from where it was mated to the pedestal.
The Liberty Bell was displayed on that pedestal for the next quarter-century, surmounted by an eagle ( originally sculpted, later stuffed ).
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