The plot is usually set in a castle, an abbey, a monastery, or some other, usually religious edifice, and it is acknowledged that this building has secrets of its own.

The current edifice is from 1476, built next to a Benedictine abbey founded in 996 oustide the city walls, and is one of the few Renaissance architecture in Modena.

The abbey was the last complete monastic edifice to be completed before the impending Reformation.

The edifice ( still used today ) was modified by the Romans, who adapted it to their different style of spectacles, including also circus games.

It is a Baroque edifice with three towers in its façade, the middle one including the bells.

The creator of the present edifice was Francis I, under whom the architect Gilles le Breton erected most of the buildings of the Cour Ovale, including the Porte Dorée, its southern entrance.

Numerous fragments of ancient buildings are scattered over its whole surface, including extensive reservoirs of water, sepulchres, tesselated pavements, etc., and the remains of a spacious edifice, commonly called a Naumachia, but the real destination of which it is difficult to determine.

" The powerful music accurately underscores the visuals of that title sequence — the massive granite edifice of New York's Pennsylvania Station, standing in for Washington's Union Station — because it was scored for an unusually large orchestra, including alto, tenor and baritone saxes, three clarinets, four horns, three pianos and a novachord.

He described character — including self-discipline, loyalty, selflessness, modesty, and willingness to accept responsibility and admit mistakes — as the " bedrock on which the whole edifice of leadership rests.

Rothbury's Anglican parish church building-All Saints ' Church-dates from circa 1850, largely replacing but in parts incorporating the fabric of a former Saxon edifice, including the chancel, the east wall of the south transept and the chancel arch.

The edifice was designed by Canon Corea, including the designs on each pillar, the octagonal tower of the sanctuary, the doors and windows, and all decorative motifs within the church.

But Krakatau is also used for the volcanic edifice as a whole, including all four islands ( Krakatau, Anak Krakatau, Verlaten and Lang ).

In this book, many of the names of the Egyptians end in-is, including Edifis ( a pun on edifice ) and Artifis ( a pun on artifice ).

Its construction laid an edifice for socio-economic development and provision of basic amenities of life including market roads, schools, electricity, gas, bank, hospital, post office etc.

The remains may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or may be interred in a tomb, an " above-ground grave " ( resembling a sarcophagus ), a mausoleum, columbarium, or other edifice.

The Romanesque edifice contains the tomb of Filippo Lippi, who died in Spoleto in 1469, designed by his son Filippino Lippi.

" Mujir al-Din al -' Ulaymi ( 1495 ), the Jerusalemite qadi and Arab historian, writes under the heading of Qoubbeh Râhîl (" Dome of Rachel ") that Rachel's tomb lies under this dome on the road between Bethlehem and Bayt Jala and that the edifice is turned towards the Sakhrah ( the rock inside the Dome of the Rock ) and widely visited by pilgrims.

Within this edifice is the tomb.

The translated ancient Roman and Greek accounts give a vivid description of the tomb both geometrically and aesthetically ; The tomb's geometric shape has changed little over the years, still maintaining a large stone of quadrangular form at the base, followed by a pyramidal succession of smaller rectangular stones, until after a few slabs, the structure is curtailed by an edifice, with an arched roof composed of a pyramidal shaped stone, and a small opening or window on the side, where the slenderst man could barely squeeze through.

Translated Greek accounts describe the tomb as having been placed in the fertile Pasargadae gardens, surrounded by trees and ornamental shrubs, with a group of Achaemenian protectors called the " Magi ", stationed nearby to protect the edifice from theft or damage.

Houses often stood four or five stories tall, with single-story rooms facing the plaza ; room blocks were terraced to allow the tallest sections to compose the pueblo's rear edifice.

Which was a very few years later than the time that Charlemagne established the payment of them in France, and made that famous division of them into four parts ; one to maintain the edifice of the church, the second to support the poor, the third the bishop, and the fourth the parochial clergy.

The Charminar is a square edifice with each side 20 meters ( approximately 66 feet ) long, with four grand arches each facing a cardinal point that open into four streets.

The edifice, measuring, has four towers with a diameter of.

The church of St Peter is an ancient edifice of flint and stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, north and south porches and a lofty embattled tower containing a clock and one bell: in the church is a monument to Nicholas Saunderson LL. D., F. R. S.

It is a Romanesque edifice on the Latin cross plan, with a nave and four ( originally two ) aisles.

Though the present edifice was built in the 13th century, it stands on the remains of one or more small Roman buildings, sometimes considered to have been a Roman basilica, or alternately the actual house in which the twin saints were born.

And although time with its gradual decaying processes is as destructive to nature's works as to man's, even so this edifice survives undamaged, despite being subjected to the pressure of so many tree-roots and the strain of bearing the weight of such a huge forest.

Like most churches of its age it has seen many alterations from an original simple room to a 15th century edifice with north and south aisles.

For many years, scholars ' consensus view was that the Bayon, the temple located at the center of Angkor Thom city, was the edifice to which the Sdok Kak Thom inscription referred.

The same year the mill changed hands to the Lincolnshire County Council which took care for the mill's restoration over many years resulting in the fine edifice that now once again plays its part in the local community.

Around 1500 CE, during one of the most violent events in recent history at Aniakchak, an estimated 0. 75 to 1. 0 km3 of material destroyed a preexisting edifice at Half Cone and inundated most of the caldera floor with pyroclastic flows, surges, and fallout many meters thick.

This makes it impossible to measure its exact base elevation or how many lava flows constitute the edifice.

Designed by the distinguished firm of Slupkowski and Piontek who built many of the most prestigious commissions in Chicago's Polish community such as the Art Deco headquarters of the Polish National Alliance, the brick structure was an imposing edifice.

Designed by the distinguished firm of Slupkowski and Piontek who built many of the most prestigious commissions in Chicago's Polish community such as the Art Deco headquarters of the Polish National Alliance and Holy Trinity High School among others, the brick structure was an imposing edifice.

Though Sir James Mackintosh mooted the proposal for a grand edifice, it was not completed until the year 1830 ( year to be confirmed with tablet on the entrance ) after many fits and starts, when the Bombay Government agreed to make up for the shortfall in funds in return for office-space.

Revolution is an edifice built of many bricks

This theory was the keystone of the whole shinbutsu shūgō edifice and therefore the foundation of Japanese religion for many centuries.

The architect of the edifice was Ghavameddin Shirazi, who is responsible for so many of Shah Rukh's great buildings, with the architectural and decorative manpower supplied from Shiraz and Isfahan.

Revolution is an edifice built of many bricks

Today its ancient edifice in the rione of Sant ' Angelo, Rome, once again provides one of the city's many popular spectacles or tourist sites.

This dome-crowned edifice, which with its various annexes took more than a century to build and adorn under the direction of many famous artists, serves merely as the setting of a tiny cottage standing within the basilica itself.