Early decorative elements were generally semi-circular, but later of roughly triangular shape with moulded ornament, often palmate.

In 1639 James Ussher suggested a semi-circular shape, rounded in the front and culminating at a line between the ears.

The building was effectively semi-circular in shape, occupying nearly 6, 000 m² ( 1. 5 acres ) of ground.

Two semi-circular towers, one each on the north and south sides of the main building, giving the building a somewhat rectangular shape overall.

The over sixty-foot-high stage building is semi-circular in shape and allows for the efficient flying and storage of scenery.

But fog obscured the shoreline, making the waters of the large, open Monterey Bay look like open ocean, and they failed to discern the coastline's semi-circular shape, described by Vizcaíno as round like an " O ", even though members of the party had twice marched along its beach.

Of the full hoods, there are three variants: the BA shape with a large semi-circular cape and long thin liripipe ; the BCL shape with a shorter cape with rounded corners and a broad liripipe and rounded corners to the cape ; the doctors ' shape is similar to the BCL but the cowl edge is cut at 80 degrees to the cape and the liripipe sticks out in a 45 degree angle.

They have a semi-circular shape, with the two wings at the sides, this serves to represent the union of a formerly divided people.

It has an interesting shape ; probably with a square tower at one end, and a semi-circular apse at the other.

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.

Often sited in pairs, the blockhouses were not built to a common design, but usually consisted of a stone tower and bastion or gun platform, which could be semi-circular, rectangular or irregular in shape.

A polytunnel ( also known as a polyhouse, hoop greenhouse or hoophouse, or high tunnel ) is a tunnel made of polyethylene, usually semi-circular, square or elongated in shape.

The Medal consists of a bronze cross pattée, with the center of each arm extended in a semi-circular shape and in the center of the front is the word " BREVET ", encircled by the words " UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS ".

An average net enclosure would be 500 m long and either semi-circular or rectangular in shape.

Internally, the building is in the shape of a Latin Cross, with central nave and an aisle on either side, divided by arcades of seven semi-circular Romanesque arches resting on columns with simplified Corinthianesque capitals.

These covers were all constructed from two semi-circular pieces of cloth stitched together to form a dome-like shape conforming to the helmet's shape.

They can be distinguished from the earlier work by the semi-circular shape of their arches.

Each prong was semi-circular in shape with a spring-loaded " door " on the front.

Descended from the tricorne, the black-coloured bicorne originally had a rather broad brim, with the front and the rear halves turned up and pinned together ( in English the shorter front brim was called " the cock "— hence " cocked hat "— and the longer rear brim was termed " the fan "), forming a semi-circular fan shape ; there was usually a cockade in the national colours at the front.

In the shape of a large rectangular area with semi-circular crescents at either end, the heritage area includes the St Vincent Place precinct bounded by Park Street, Cecil Street, Bridport Street, Cardigan Place and Nelson Road.

* The penalty area is significantly different from regular football: it is semi-circular in shape, only the goalkeeper is allowed to touch the ball within it, and he or she is not allowed out.

The Italian garden from the Orangery looking towards the " Lion Exedra " ( a semi-circular screen ) designed by Jeffry Wyatville

There is a smaller, semi-circular rim of a concentric, flooded crater within the main rim, offset towards the eastern edge.

The offensive was against the semi-circular Yelnya salient which the German 4th Army had extended 50 km south-east of Smolensk forming a staging area for a continued offensive towards Vyazma and eventually Moscow.

The Snowdon Horseshoe is the name given to the semi-circular ring of ridges and peaks on Snowdon's eastern side, i. e. facing down Dyffryn Mymbyr towards Capel Curig.

* Midland Way and Morton Way are modern additions forming a roughly semi-circular eastern boundary to the town, and allow HGVs headed for the industrial estate to avoid the centre.

At the centre of Walmer Castle is a circular keep, surrounded by an open courtyard and protected by a concentric wall, from which four, squat, semi-circular bastions project.

Abercrombie designated it as the " C Ring " ( the third ring out from the city centre ); however, the plan for a high-quality road was not realised and the semi-circular route was assigned to existing roads through the southern suburbs ;< ref >

A symmetrical composition in ashlar, rusticated quoins, with square, groups of rusticated chimney shafts ; the north and south elevations are identical, three dormers, casements under pediments, the centre one semi-circular.

Glasgow Fort, built on the grounds of Provanhall house and park of the same name, is a large, semi-circular, traditional street style shopping centre.

One of the earliest surviving houses in the town is The Lawn, in front of the Civic Centre with its public tennis courts, in brown brick with three double-hung sash windows set back in reveals with flat arches, roof with parapet and porch of fluted doric columns, pilasters, entablature and semi-circular traceried fanlight.

The church was built in Romanesque style with semi-circular arches supporting a flat timber ceiling.

The structure of the Chapel is marked by flat wall-pillars on the interior as well as the exterior, a semi-circular choir and a pointed-topped spire.

All its dependencies face this yard through a gallery of gothic semi-circular arches.

The ceremonial center contains a large plaza and several buildings known to house priests and nobility but the main attraction is the five “ yacatas ” or semi-circular pyramids that face out over the lake area.

Other common styles of clothing popularly worn with a niqab in Western countries include the khimar, a semi-circular flare of fabric with an opening for the face and a small triangular underscarf.

The two most popular styles for these are dual lenses set in metal frames ( which are often confused with Aviators ), and " Wraparound " ( a single, smooth, semi-circular lens that covers both eyes and much of the same area of the face covered by protective goggles, combined with a minimal plastic frame and single piece of plastic serving as a nosepad ).

Walkers on the moor will often stumble upon ruined blowing houses and mortar stones, featuring rows of semi-circular depressions, in which the ore was crushed.

Tango Monastery is built in the dzong fashion, and has a curved ( semi-circular ) outside wall and prominent main tower with recesses.

Originally two storey with curved central bow, fronted by a semi-circular Ionic colonnade, and surmounted by a dome.

The cross-section was not precisely semi-circular, as the bottom of the hut curved in slightly.

The canopy is fitted with curved glass-and-aluminium sliding doors that allow the space to be completely opened around half its circumference, opening out to a semi-circular swimming pool and a broad terrace.

The stadium originally consisted of two semi-circular grandstands on either sideline, with the west ( home ) sideline having a small, curved upper deck whose 2 ends abut in matching concrete towers.