In England, this motif usually appears in a prominent place in the church, such as the central rib of the chancel roof, or on a central rib of the nave.

Some basilicas in the Caucasus, particularly those of Georgia and Armenia, have a central nave only slightly higher than the two aisles and a single pitched roof covering all three.

It is the widest Gothic nave in England and has a wooden roof ( painted so as to appear like stone ) and the aisles have vaulted stone roofs.

James Montague, the Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1608 – 1616, paid £ 1, 000 for a new nave roof of timber lath construction ; according to the inscription on his tomb, this was prompted after seeking shelter in the roofless nave during a thunderstorm.

On 10 October 1323 two piers on the south side of the nave collapsed dragging down much of the roof and wrecking five bays.

The money raised was spent on the nave roof over ten bays.

With the limited funds the clerestory wall was rebuilt, the nave roof re-leaded, the tower spike removed, some forty blocked windows reopened and glazed, and the south window remade in stone.

The south wall of the nave was now far from straight ; Scott reinforced the north wall and put in scaffolding to take the weight of the roof off the wall, then had it jacked straight in under three hours.

George Gilbert Scott was working on the nave roof, vaulting and west bay when he died on 27 March 1878.

The nave high vaults were erected in the 1220s, the canons moved into their new stalls in 1221 under a temporary roof at the level of the clerestory, and the transept roses were erected over the subsequent two decades.

The roof of the nave is so high that it makes the tower seem shorter than it really is ; but it is at least 100 feet high.

* St. Michael's parish church, Lyneham, Wiltshire: nave roof and chancel, 1862 – 65

This period also saw great developments for the nave, whose roof and Irish Oak ceiling were constructed between 1530-40.

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.

* St Peter and St Paul, Buckingham Church Buckingham, ( 1862 – 1878 ), additions to the original 1780 church including chancel, buttresses, porch, roof and nave alterations.

Notable features of the church are the twin towers ( a landmark for miles around ), the Norman nave, the splendid 15th century angel roof in the nave and fine north aisle roof.

However, despite the villagers ' being allowed to keep the church, the lead was stripped from the nave, and until 1618 when George Preston, a landowner at nearby Holker Hall, provided considerable finances to allow the roof to be reinstated, the villagers actually worshipped in the choir, rather than the nave of the church.

The nave was re-covered with an elliptical domical vault hidden externally by a low cylinder on the roof, in place of the earlier barrel vaulted ceiling, and the original central dome from the Justinian era was replaced with one raised upon a high windowed drum.

The current church was built in the 18th century with a single nave covered in a wood and tile roof.

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.