This makes sandstone a common building and paving material.

A few fragments remain of the Charterhouse in Coventry, mostly dating from the 15th century, and consisting of a sandstone building that was probably the prior's house.

The sandstone building sat on a foundation seven feet thick.

It was originally housed in a simple grey stone church building above the Station Road beside the Milngavie Primary School before moving to a handsome red sandstone building on the Strathblane Road in 1906.

Vibrations were further reduced by building the apparatus on top of a large block of sandstone ( Fig.

The building was completed in 1893, with limestone from the Leon River and red sandstone from Pecos County.

He had taken over the Indiana Statehouse project when architect Edwin May died in 1880 ; five years after the completion of that project in 1888, Scherrer began work on the Tipton building, which was built of sandstone in a Romanesque style with a clock tower that rises 206 feet above the ground, including the flagstaff on top.

By 1920, the workforce had been brought back up to strength and the stone quarries at Woolton, source of the red sandstone for most of the building, reopened.

The remains consist of the homestead building itself which is a single room, cypress pine and corrugated iron structure encircled by verandahs ; a flagstone floor ; a scatter of corrugated iron, sandstone blocks and other metal objects ; and a set of stockyards constructed using bush timber poles and barbed wire

The campus ' distinctive architectural theme utilizes locally quarried sandstone to acknowledge the region's Native puebloan building style and evoke the Four Corners landscape and colors.

Designed by American architect Richard Gluckman, the modest Berlin gallery occupies a corner of the ground floor of the sandstone Deutsche Bank building, in the Unter der Linden boulevard, constructed in 1920.

Historic places in East Longmeadow include the numerous red and brown sandstone quarries that gave the town its industrial beginnings and from which the original Smithsonian Institution building in Washington was mined, and the Elijah Burt House, The Seward Pease House and the First Congregationalist Church.

Although the courthouse burned in 1946, two of these sandstone buildings remain — the First National Bank building and the Old Scott County Jail.

The pioneers envisioned a building of three stories, built from the abundant yellow sandstone and massive timbers in nearby canyons.

Near the station are the village primary school ( a large red sandstone Grade B listed Art Nouveau building dating from 1912 to 1914 ), a small general store and a community centre ( all in Brock Street ).

This symmetry extended to the building of an entire mirror mosque in red sandstone to complement the Mecca-facing mosque place to the west of the main structure.

The sandstone used in building the Babri Mosque also had resonant qualities which contributed to the unique acoustics.

The building is built of local sandstone and houses the Kerry County Museum and a reconstruction of early Tralee.

The sandstone cathedral of St. Mary was commenced in the 12th century as a Romanesque building.

The stone was a mixture of limestone, sandstone and green schists, which was used fairly randomly within the walls and towers ; the use of schists ceased after the pause in the building work in 1298 and as a result is limited to the lower levels of the walls.

Colmar's secular and religious architectural landmarks reflect eight centuries of Germanic and French architecture and the adaptation of their respective stylistic language to the local customs and building materials ( pink and yellow Vosges sandstone, timber framing ).

Increasing demand for building stone and the emergence of the railways allowed for the additional transportation of red sandstone to Glasgow from quarries in Dumfriesshire from the late 19th century onwards.

Darlinghurst Courthouse is an imposing sandstone building on Taylor Square.

During this period the region along with most of Eastern Australia was part of the ocean floor ; formations from this period include the Black Mountain Sandstone formation and the Pittman Formation consisting largely of quartz-rich sandstone, siltstone and shale.

The " Justice fountain " ( Gerechtskeitbrunnen ) was built in 1634, and is made of French limestone ; it includes a statue of Lady Justice made of sandstone, hence the name.

The Abbey was built over some sixty years using local red sandstone, but gives the impression of a single coherent, mainly ' Early English ' architectural design, though the round-arched processional doorway in the western front looks back to late Norman or transitional work.

The soft sandstone of the walls was originally protected by plaster internally and render externally.

This was formerly a sandstone quarry and then used as the council refuse tip before becoming a carpark, part of the overgrown and rocky bluff separating Aberdour's two bays.

The only stone used by Angkorian builders was sandstone, obtained from the Kulen mountains.

Since its obtainment was considerably more expensive than that of brick, sandstone only gradually came into use, and at first was used for particular elements such as door frames.

The original sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.

In 1887, the rail link to Sydney was completed, requiring a bridge over the Hawkesbury River and a tunnel through the sandstone ridge west of Woy Woy.

Construction was of white sandstone with painted black bands and a black top meant to be seen from several miles out to sea during daylight hours.

The sandstone cliffs have been the subject of considerable erosion in relatively recent times: much of the Castle was lost to the sea before the present sea defences and promenade were built, and a number of cliff-top houses are in danger of disappearing around the nearby village of Fairlight.

An eroded outcrop at Siccar Point showing sloping red sandstone above vertical greywacke was sketched by Sir James Hall in 1788.

One of these was the Lion of Belfort, a monumental sculpture carved in sandstone below the fortress of Belfort, which during the war had resisted a Prussian siege for over three months.

A marble duplicate of the sandstone East Front was built from the old Front.

Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D. C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical style.

When construction was finished the porous sandstone walls were coated with a mixture of lime, rice glue, casein, and lead, giving the house its familiar color and name.

The exterior walls were clad with sandstone from Scania, and the new castle was given a roof with copper sheeting.

It was also designed by Salvin and is constructed of rock-faced sandstone with a tile roof.

Antelope Canyon | Lower Antelope Canyon was carved out of the surrounding sandstone by both mechanical weathering and chemical weathering.

Ripple marks formed by a current in a sandstone that was later tilted ( Haßberge ( district ) | Haßberge, Bavaria )

If the rock was originally banded or foliated ( as, for example, a laminated sandstone or a foliated calc-schist ) this character may not be obliterated, and a banded hornfels is the product ; fossils even may have their shapes preserved, though entirely recrystallized, and in many contact-altered lavas the vesicles are still visible, though their contents have usually entered into new combinations to form minerals that were not originally present.

The first survey of the line was made by E. N. Darling in 1868, and marked with a sandstone marker.