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Rotwang and Maria end up on the roof of the cathedral, and are seen by Freder from the ground.
Freder climbs up to the roof of the cathedral and confronts Rotwang ; the two fight, and Rotwang eventually loses his balance and falls to his death.
The cathedral was damaged by fire on 29 May 2006: the roof was totally destroyed but the interior is largely intact.
The Church of St Cuthbert ( which tourists often mistake for the cathedral ) has a fine Somerset stone tower and a superb carved roof.
The cathedral offers tours of the cathedral, the tower and the roof.
The cathedral has been fortunate in being spared the damage suffered by so many during the Wars of Religion and the Revolution, though the lead roof was removed to make bullets and the Directorate threatened to destroy the building as its upkeep, without a roof, had become too onerous.
On the evening of 2 January 1941 during World War II the cathedral was severely damaged when a landmine was dropped near it during the Cardiff Blitz, blowing the roof off the nave, south aisle and chapter house.
The tall single tented roof of this belltower, built in the vernacular style of the reign of Alexis I, significantly changed the appearance of the cathedral, adding a strong asymmetrical counterweight to the church itself.
At his death, the cathedral walls were complete up to " the covering ", which probably means the vault instead of the roof.
However, only five days after the cathedral was consecrated, a storm destroyed the tower roof.
In 1749 the main cathedral roof was removed by Arthur Price, the Anglican Archbishop of Cashel.
As the most important religious building in Austria's capital, the cathedral has borne witness to many important events in that nation's history and has, with its multi-colored tile roof, become one of the city's most recognizable symbols.
* Luchino Visconti's 1960 film Rocco e i suoi fratelli, set in Milan, has a scene which takes place on the roof of the cathedral.
* The cathedral appeared in the 2002 movie Spider-Man, when Spider-Man saves Mary Jane Watson and leaves her on one of the Rockefeller Center roof gardens across the street.
In 1568 the lead was stripped from the roof of the cathedral, by order of the Privy Council.
In Romanesque, Byzantine and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral and church architecture, the term is applied to a semi-circular or polygonal termination of the main building at the liturgical east end ( where the altar is ), regardless of the shape of the roof, which may be flat, sloping, domed, or hemispherical.
Note the Japanese inspired eyelid dormers in the roof to each side of the entrance. Richardson pointedly claimed ability to create any type of structure a client wanted, insisting he could design anything " from a cathedral to a chicken coop.
In a 1636 engraving, the cathedral is represented as being covered with a temporary wooden roof.
Its size and naturally arched roof, and the eerie sounds produced by the echoes of waves, give it the atmosphere of a natural cathedral.
It exceeded, in my mind, every description I had heard of it … composed entirely of basaltic pillars as high as the roof of a cathedral, and running deep into the rock, eternally swept by a deep and swelling sea, and paved, as it were, with ruddy marble, baffles all description.
The roof of the Synod Hall was replaced, new lighting, provision of new toilets, the Sacristy Corridor was levelled, a choir room provided, the bishop's vestry was replaced by a disabled toilet with level access to the cathedral to the crossing and a wheelchair lift between the disabled toilet and the Synod Hall.
Image: wells. cathedral. roof. arp. jpg | The ceiling of Wells Cathedral, England

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At the entrance side of the shelter, each roof beam is rested on the inside 4 inches of the block wall.
The wooden bracing between the roof beams is placed flush with the inside of the wall.
The roof shown here ( fig. 9 ) is a 6-inch slab of reinforced concrete, covered with at least 20 inches of pit-run gravel.
Taking the streetcar back to Kaiser's Fountain, I walked ahead, then left down the street opposite St. Sophia and just beyond the corner came to a small, one-story building with a red-tile roof, which is the entrance to the Sunken Palace.
But now many of these same builders are finding they can cut their costs more by teaming up with a dealer who has volume enough to afford the most efficient specialized equipment to deliver everything just where it is needed -- drywall inside the house, siding along the sides, trusses on the walls, roofing on the roof, etc..
The congressman who, in Paris, may have stuffed his wallet with enough franc notes to paper the roof of Notre-Dame will systematically scream that a $200 increase in entertainment allowance for a second secretary is tantamount to debauchery of the Treasury.
Once the beams are laid across the building, it is then time to begin the placing of adobe bricks to create the roof.
An adobe roof is often laid with bricks slightly larger in width to ensure a larger expanse is covered when placing the bricks onto the beams.
The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur.
The top of the building is a crown, like a huge gable, which is at the same level as the roof and helps to conceal the room where there used to be water tanks.
The building is made open to the public by the CatalunyaCaixa Foundation, which manages the various exhibitions and activities and visits to the interior and roof.
There is a charge for entrance to the apartment on the second floor and the roof.
The dominant exterior finish, is red brick and it showcases a green metal roof system with large overhangs.
In many areas, it is difficult to keep a roof clean enough for drinking.
When Miles Gloriosus arrives to claim his courtesan-bride, Pseudolus hides Philia on the roof of Senex's house ; told that she has " escaped ," Lycus is terrified to face the Captain's wrath.
After the sun rises, the fake town is a perfect replica, right down to the orange roof on Howard Johnson's outhouse.
Though there was much argument in the past, it is now generally accepted that brochs were roofed, probably with a conical timber framed roof covered with a locally sourced thatch.
The roof is a glass and steel construction, built by an Austrian steelwork company, with 1, 656 uniquely shaped panes of glass.
Above the gate there is a tower that rises three stories higher and has a turret-style roof.
It is constructed of a wooden frame with gabled thatch roof and walls of woven bamboo.
The Egyptians, Persians and other civilizations mostly used columns for the practical purpose of holding up the roof inside a building, preferring outside walls to be decorated with reliefs or painting, but the Ancient Greeks, followed by the Romans, loved to use them on the outside as well, and the extensive use of columns on the interior and exterior of buildings is one of the most characteristic features of classical architecture, in buildings like the Parthenon.
* With the alveolar clicks, written with an exclamation mark,, the tip of the tongue is pulled down abruptly and forcefully from the roof of the mouth, sometimes using a lot of jaw motion, and making a hollow pop!
Cowboys Stadium is a new domed stadium with a retractable roof in Arlington, Texas, for the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys.

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