`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

Today the cross, which is a replacement, is about 3 feet 4 inches ( 1 m ) tall and 1 foot 8 inches ( 0. 5 m ) across at the crosspiece, and it has its base in a socket stone which rests on a pedestal of granite blocks that raises the total height of the cross to 7 ft ( 2. 1 m ).

The central chambers are tall and steep-sided and have corbelled roofing faced with high quality stone.

These laws were inscribed on stone tablets ( stelae ) standing over eight feet tall ( 2. 4 meters ), of unknown provenance, found in Persia in 1901.

This is thought to date back to early times in the quarrying industry, where piles of extracted stone ( not fit for sale ) were built into tall rough walls ( to save space ) directly behind the working quarry face ; the rabbit's natural tendency to burrow would weaken these " walls " and cause collapse, often resulting in injuries or even death.

Despite being contemporary with true Neolithic henges and stone circles, Stonehenge is in many ways atypical – for example, at over tall, its extant trilithons supporting lintels held in place with mortise and tenon joints, make it unique.

A tall white-colored stone clock tower with a green roof is in the background

The central feature in the park is a 25 meter tall monument that consists of a silver metallic rocketship rising on a curved metallic column of flame, from a wedge shaped, white stone base.

In front of this is a 3 meter tall, white stone statue of Yuri Gagarin, wearing a spacesuit, with one arm raised in greeting and the other holding a space helmet.

Originally it was around 5 foot 10 tall with a stone ball on top.

Telford also undertook highway works in the Scottish Lowlands, including of new roads and numerous bridges, ranging from a 112 ft ( 34 m ) span stone bridge across the Dee at Tongueland in Kirkcudbright ( 1805 – 1806 ) to the 129 ft ( 39 m ) tall Cartland Crags bridge near Lanark ( 1822 ).

At six feet, two inches ( 1. 88 m ) tall and 210 pounds ( 95 kg ; 15 stone ), Forrest was physically imposing and intimidating, especially compared to the average height of men at the time.

A stone weaver's cottage survives, as does the tall chimney of the joinery, and the foundations of other buildings.

Her grave is marked by a tall white stone inscribed with her school name, not the name by which she was famously known, which reads: " Tomb of Late Mother, Lǐ Yúnhè, 1914 – 1991 " ( 先母李云鹤之墓 ， 一九一四年至一九九一年 ).

Flashman was a large man, six feet two inches ( 1. 88 m ) tall and close to 13 stone ( about 180 pounds or 82 kg ).

* The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests ( 祈年殿 ) is a magnificent triple-gabled circular building, 36 meters in diameter and 38 meters tall, built on three levels of marble stone base, where the Emperor prayed for good harvests.

Herod's building, with 6-foot-thick stone walls made from stones that were at least 3 feet tall and sometimes reach a length of 24 feet, did not have a roof.

The street-level structures are of white Portland stone with tall double-height ticket halls, with the famous London Underground roundel made up in coloured glass panels in large glazed screens.

The building is of red brick with white stone quoins and has tall windows with round arches, arranged in pairs.

A stone wall, carven with figures, runs round it ; within is a grove of very tall trees growing round a great shrine, wherein is the image of the goddess ; the temple is a square, each side measuring a furlong.

It is of Clipsham stone and stands tall.

It is overshadowed by the Tench Tilghman Monument, a stone spire approximately 10 feet tall.

The East Sylva Baptist Church is the dominant building of the neighborhood, with a tall spire and three floors, built in the mid-1950s and replacing an earlier stone church nearby.

One is locally named Indian Rocks and is a series of exposed ridges of tall chimney like stone formations ( one larger than the others ).

It has an tall stone wheel housed in a timber frame.

The Funkturm Berlin is a tall lattice radio tower at the fair area, built between 1924 and 1926.

At the south-east is a tall clock tower topped with turrets, one of which has a balustrade similar to a feature at Castle Fraser.

Another common feature is the spire, a tall tower on the " west " end of the church or over the crossing.

The tower is made up of three sections: a 30. 5 m ( 100 ft ) high tower base forming the main entrance and public circulation spaces ; a 235. 4 m ( 772 ft ) tall tower body containing 57 office floors, a sky lobby and five mechanical plant floors ; and the tower top consist of six mechanical plant floors and a 102 m ( 335 ft ) tall tower mast.

Largely complete by 1230, the castle was of typical Norman courtyard design, with a central square without a keep, bounded on all sides by tall defensive walls and protected at each corner by a circular tower.

* Armstrong Tower — tall lattice tower built and used by Edwin Armstrong in 1938

He also builds a tall tower in order to further his quest for knowledge.

The small parcel of land made a tall tower necessary, and Pei had usually shied away from such projects ; in Hong Kong especially, the skyscrapers lacked any real architectural character.

The tall Tudor windows at the top of the tower date from the 1570s.

A common feature in mosques is the minaret, the tall, slender tower that usually is situated at one of the corners of the mosque structure.

* 1977 – The 300 metre tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse.

The plan was eventually cancelled as city zoning does not permit construction of such a tall tower there.

* October 10 – A tornado destroys the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Langenberg, Germany.

* A mountain near Ciechanow, Poland on which a 100-metre tall radio tower stands

Antennas for the 80m band frequently involve large or complex designs typically mounted on a tall tower with great distances needed between buildings and thus the transmitter.

During the second year of the plant's life, a long, leafy stem from 50 to 255 centimeters tall grows atop the roots of healthy plants.

Her memorial service sees a vast turnout, and a tall gleaming pillar with a light burning atop it is constructed in tribute to her.

The tall bronze statue depicts a uniformed Patton raising a pair of binoculars up to his eyes, atop a pink granite base.

" Though Sigil is commonly held to be located " at the center of the planes " ( where it is positioned atop the infinitely tall Spire ), some argue that this is impossible since the planes are infinite in all dimensions, and therefore there can never truly be a center to any of them, let alone all of them.

The 85 ft ( 26 m ) tall Leigh Woods tower stands atop a red sandstone clad abutment.

The first part of Planescape: Torment takes place in Sigil, a city located atop an infinitely tall spire at the center of the multiverse, that connects the planes with each other via a series of portals.

A Belisha beacon is an amber-coloured globe lamp atop a tall black and white pole, marking pedestrian crossings of roads in the United Kingdom, Ireland and in other countries ( e. g., Hong Kong, Malta ) historically influenced by Britain.

The castle sat atop a 200-foot ( 60 m ) tall hill which in recent years was being used as the Mexican Military Academy.

Flocks of birds appear to engage in play ; one routine involves a bird perching atop a tall tree, pole or spire, and others swooping, tumbling or diving and attempting to dislodge it.

* An old woman holding a rose is revealed to be sitting atop a tall gravestone, at the bottom of which is a stone bust of her husband George with a hatchet embedded in his head.

The Texas Hill Country is a vernacular term applied to a region of Central Texas featuring tall rugged hills consisting of thin layers of soil atop limestone or granite.

Rather than building extremely large arches, or very tall supporting columns ( difficult using stone ), a series of arched structures are built one atop another, with wider structures at the base.

The central castle building is five stories on the outside and eight stories on the inside, and built atop a tall stone foundation to protect its occupants from sword-bearing attackers.

Although several of Quebec City's buildings are taller, the landmark hotel is perched atop a tall cape overlooking the Saint Lawrence River, affording a spectacular view for several kilometers.

The male tarantula hawk has a behavior called hill-topping, where he sits atop tall plants and watches for passing females that are ready to reproduce.

The only established requirements are: the installation of the Guru Granth Sahib, under a canopy or in a canopied seat, usually on a platform higher than the specific floor on which the devotees sit, and a tall Sikh pennant flag atop the building.

The " German " style being a cone shaped structure completely embroidered with cloth ; the " Russian " style consisting of a tall brass plate atop of a leather cap with a peak at the rear and the " British " style ( usually simply called a " grenadier cap " instead of a mitre ) being a tall cloth front-plate forward of a smaller red cap, lined in white.

The Garden's oleaster grows out of reach, atop 49 tall pillars.

This planet consists of a series of cylindrical layers stacked one atop the other, to form an enormous, approximately conical tower ( albeit much broader than it is tall ).

Despite her similar protests upon her return, the Graysons find various inventive reasons to avoid renaming it, or for removing the 4 meter tall heroic statue sitting atop an 8 meter column depicting her martyred self outside the main entrance to Grayson's Parliament building –— much to her embarrassment.

It is situated atop a 526 meter tall hill.

The remains stand perched atop tall, sea-facing cliffs, constructed around an existing tower house built in 1597 by the 9th Earl of Erroll.

Mickey manages to tie Julius up with a rope atop a tall building and rescue Minnie, and the two travel to Hawaii together on an inflatable boat pulled by Julius as he swims after the photo of Minnie in Mickey's wallet, which is attached to a fishing line manned by Mickey.