Walls were covered in stucco reliefs, ceilings medallions and motifs of plaster, segmental mouldings, and carvings, in an almost rococo style peculiar to Ireland.

The first floor contains the drawing room which has a decorative ceiling of rococo plaster work of flower garlands and medallion busts reputed to be of Stannus ladies.

The original Chapel now forms the Old Library and has a striking seventeenth century plaster ceiling, designed by Henry Doogood, showing birds flying overhead.

The addition of hard surfaced furniture, wall hangings, shelving and even baroque plaster ceiling decoration changes the echoes, primarily because of diffusion caused by reflective objects with shapes and surfaces having sizes on the order of the sound wavelengths.

Its timber and plaster ceiling, a Gothic vault with Renaissance pendants completed by trumpeting boys, is considered the " most important and magnificent in Britain ".

It is believed to have been built c. 1540 for Richard Bel ( l ) ingham, twice High Sheriff of Sussex, whose initials are carved into a fireplace, and whose coat of arms adorns a period plaster ceiling.

Based on this decision, according to Arguimbau's critical reading of the restoration data that has been provided, the chemists of the restoration team decided upon a solvent that would effectively strip the ceiling down to its paint-impregnated plaster.

* a round plaster relief on the ceiling of the circular staircase inside the hotel ;

The Green Dining Room 1866 – 68 was the work of Philip Webb and William Morris, displays Elizabethan influences, the lower part of the walls are panelled in wood with a band of paintings depicting fruit and the occasional figure, with moulded plaster foliage on the main part of the wall and a plaster frieze around the decorated ceiling and stained glass windows by Edward Burne-Jones.

The chapel, a mix of Gothic and Baroque styles, features a hanging fan vault ceiling of wood and plaster, and was consecrated in 1666.

The room above has a particularly fine plaster ceiling and chimneypiece of stucco caryatids and panelling interlaced with studded bands sprouting into large flowers.

The Green Velvet Room is by by in size and has a plaster ceiling with nine deeply recessed, gilded compartments derived from Inigo Jones's design for the Queen's Chapel at Old Somerset House ( formally Denmark House, now demolished ).

It retains its original marble fireplace and has an ornate plaster ceiling which is a Victorian copy of the original ceiling by the Carolean plasterer Edward Goudge.

Friday 3 December's gig saw more plaster fall from Brixton Academy's ceiling

The ceiling is a plaster work by William Wilton and paintings include Hogarth ’ s Moses before Pharao ’ s Daughter and Gainsborough ’ s picture of London ’ s Charter House.

This remodelling led to the covering of the oak beams with a curved plaster ceiling, " a most barbarous innovation ".

Some signs of the McKay house are still visible, notably in the now blanked window on the north wall of the reception room and the ornate plaster ceiling in the royal suite.

Cable moulding trim surrounds most of the openings and, around the perimeter of the room, at the intersection of walls and ceiling, is a deep and ornate plaster crown moulding formed by a godroon textured frieze and a heavy dentiled bed-mould between layers of talon and gorge mouldings.

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The ceiling and walls are decorated with plaster molding.

The roof in the nave is the most recent of restorations with the plaster ceiling by Rev Dr Boog which was added in the 1790s being replaced by a timber roof in 1981.

The last remains of it were demolished in 1928, to make way for an extension to Pearson's department store, though a panelled room with an elaborate plaster ceiling and a stone fireplace survives, relocated to a house in Gentleman's Row, a street of sixteenth to eighteenth century houses near the town centre.

Many of the greatest paintings in Europe, like Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling are executed in fresco, meaning they are painted on a thin layer of wet plaster, called intonaco ( in fact the general term for plaster in Italian ); the pigments sink into this layer so that the plaster itself becomes the medium holding them, which accounts for the excellent durability of fresco.

The remains of some 65 individuals were found, buried under huge horizontal headstone structures, some of which consisted of up to 3 tons of locally-produced white plaster.

In a 1798 paper on the fossil remains of an animal found in some plaster quarries near Paris Cuvier wrote:

Unlike mortar and cement, plaster remains quite soft after setting, and can be easily manipulated with metal tools or even sandpaper.

Trade jurisdiction on unionized construction sites in North America remains with the plasterers, regardless of whether the plaster is decorative in nature or is used in passive fire protection.

At one time the sides were coated with a smooth coating of white plaster, the remains of which can still be seen clinging to the outer walls.

The somewhat remote, less intimate construction of form-wet plaster applied over a constructed wooden armature, roughly hewn back with tearing abrasive tools gave a grieving surface, ungenerous, loose, but however brittle it remains a surface, independent of its interior.

A lawyer by profession, Brandt was Personal Administrative Officer to the Reichsführer-SS ( Persönlicher Referent vom Reichsführer SS ) Heinrich Himmler, and a defendant at the Doctors ' Trial at Nuremberg for his part in securing the 86 victims of the Jewish skeleton collection, an attempt to create an anthropological display of plaster body casts and skeletal remains of Jewish Untermenschen.

A number of churches and cathedrals still show the faint remains of these tracings ( or épures as they are known in France ), from where the mason's compass points scratched through the plaster and into the masonry below.

Substantial Roman remains have also been found at Bedminster Down, including plaster, tesserae ( hence mosaic floors ), sandstone roof tiles, coins and pottery, hence the site is thought to be a Roman Villa occupied by the Romano-British.

The box-like loges are still evident by what remains of the metal railings in front of the loge section as well as the decorative plaster when viewed from below.

Finally, in the 1920s it was agreed to replace the temporary plaster building with a permanent, concrete and steel replacement which remains today and has been refurbished on several occasions.

This mosaic no longer survives, but an over-restored one remains in the apse of the oratory at Germigny-des-Prés ( 806 ) which shows the Ark of the Covenant adored by angels, discovered in 1820 under a coat of plaster.

During the rest of the summer my scholarly mania for making plaster casts and spatter prints of Catskill flowers and leaves was all but surpassed by the constantly renewed impressions of Jessica that my mind served up to me for contemplation and delight.

Practically all bulky housing products can now be ordered in standard units palletized or unitized for mechanical handling -- including lumber, asphalt shingles, glass block, face brick, plaster, lime, hardboard, gypsum wallboard and sheathing, cement, insulation sheathing, floor tile, acoustical tile, plaster base, and asbestos shingles.

Green lumber was all very well back in the days of wet plaster, when the framing lumber was bound to swell and then shrink as tons of water dried out the gypsum.

The plaster was sound, the intonaco firmly attached all over, and the pigment solidly incorporated with it in all but a few unimportant places.

At the age of 75, alone and in mental and physical despair, he completed the work as one of his 14 Black Paintings, all of which were executed in oil directly onto the plaster walls of his house.

The additional a secco work would be done to make changes, and sometimes to add small details, but also because not all colours can be achieved in true fresco, because only some pigments work chemically in the very alkaline environment of fresh lime-based plaster.

His Maserati was specially modified so that he could use all three of its pedals with his left foot ; his right was still in plaster.

The materials used to build a Mesopotamian house were the same as those used today: mud brick, mud plaster and wooden doors, which were all naturally available around the city, although wood could not be naturally made very well during the particular time period described.

Each building has a gable, those on the outer buildings being larger than those on the inner buildings, and all are decorated with brick and plaster.

The plaque has been set in plaster and unfortunately not all the glazed decoration survived.

The construction of the stone walls appears to have been the same for all groups: a core of mud and stone covered with plaster or well-cut trachyte rock.

In all cases, wherever the bricks are left fully visible — as opposed to being covered up by plaster or stucco — they are called facing bricks.

The original building required extensive renovations including: a new stage, all new seating, plaster and lath work, and restoration of historical decorations.

He was thin and emaciated and had sticking plaster all over his face, notably a big piece sealing his mouth.

He wrote all his answers, unable as he was to speak through the sticking plaster.

Constructed from temporary materials ( primarily staff, a combination of plaster and burlap fiber ), almost all the fair's various buildings and attractions were pulled down in late 1915.

The existing exterior stucco was removed and replaced with new material ; the interior plaster, wood windows and shutter were restored ; fireplace mantels, stone and wood floors in the basement, and the existing cedar roof were all repaired ; and a new exterior sidewalk was added to a handicap ramp.

The restorations included new carpets, draperies, and lighting fixtures that duplicated the original designs, and historically accurate restoration of all plaster and paint surfaces throughout the lobby, lounges, foyers, and the auditorium.

According to Michelangelo's pupil and biographer Ascanio Condivi, the brackets and frame that supported the steps and flooring were all put in place at the beginning of the work and a lightweight screen, possibly cloth, was suspended beneath them to catch plaster drips, dust and splashes of paint.

Few windows overlook the inner courtyard (" cortile "); the colonnaded walls are decorated on all sides by deep niches and blind windows, and the intervening surfaces are spattered by ' spezzato ' ( broken and blemished plaster ) giving life and depth to the surfaces.

The frescoes consist of painting on top of fresh plaster, so that when the plaster is dried the painting becomes part of the plaster and an integral part of the wall, which helps it survive so well ( indeed, almost all of surviving Etruscan and Roman painting is in fresco ).