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south and wall
He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.
From the curio cabinet on its south wall and the bureaus beneath, you abstracted seventeen ivory, metal, wood, and stone sculptures of Oriental and African origin, two snuffboxes, and a jade-handled magnifying glass.
A necropolis on the escarpment to the south of the curtain wall can also be seen complete with signs of illegal modern excavations.
To accommodate it, the south part of the summit was cleared, made level by adding some 8, 000 two-ton blocks of limestone, a foundation deep at some points, and the rest filled with earth kept in place by the retaining wall.
To the south lies the Laurenzenvorstadt, that is, the part of the town formerly outside the city wall.
File: BM ; RM18-GR, The Parthenon Galleries 1 Temple of Athena Parthenos ( 447-438 B. C ) + North Slip Room ,-Full Elevation & Viewing North -. JPG | Room 18-Parthenon statuary from the east pediment and Metopes from the south wall
This obviated the need for a defensive ditch or fosse since the line of the city wall would follow the south lip of the quarry.
In Denmark too, church wall paintings or kalkmalerier were widely used in the Middle Ages ( first Romanesque then Gothic ) and can be seen in some 600 Danish churches as well as in churches in the south of Sweden which was Danish at the time.
There is a continuation of the horizontal passage in the south wall of the lower chamber ; there is also a pit dug in the floor of the chamber.
The same sources record that Godfred strengthened the Danevirke, an earthen wall that stretched across the south of the Jutland peninsula.
There is also a frieze by Adolph Weinman depicting the " great lawgivers of history ", including Hammurabi, on the south wall of the U. S. Supreme Court building.
He built a tower now known as Leicester's building on the south edge of the court as a guest wing, extending out beyond the inner bailey wall for extra space.
The Yuan rulers whom Polo served, as well as the preceding Jin and Liao Empires controlled territories both north and south of today's wall, and would have no reasons to maintain any fortifications that may have remained there from the earlier dynasties.
The next day, he finds Elzevir and Ratsey against the south wall of the church.
Near the south end of the eastern city wall.
One bomb fell into Old Palace Yard on 26 September 1940 and severely damaged the south wall of St Stephen's Porch and the west front.
It is named after the city of Potsdam, some 25 km to the south west, and marks the point where the old road from Potsdam passed through the city wall of Berlin at the Potsdam Gate.
Only the exterior walls remained, and they had to be torn down and mostly reconstructed because of weakening from the fire and subsequent exposure to the elements, except for portions of the south wall.
* Empress Theodora and Her Attendants, mosaic on south wall of the apse, Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, is made ( approximate date ).
The wall started at Pearl Street, which was the shoreline at that time, crossing the Indian path Broadway and ending at the other shoreline ( today's Trinity Place ), where it took a turn south and ran along the shore until it ended at the old fort.
File: Gariannonum Burgh Castle south wall well preserved close up. jpg | Close-up of the wall of the Roman shore fort at Burgh Castle, Norfolk, showing alternating courses of flint and brick
An additional wall, running from north to south, bisected the monastery into an " inner " and " outer " ward.
The archiepiscopal palace and monastic buildings on the south side were of great size and magnificence, and were surrounded by a massive precinct wall, crowned at intervals by twelve towers.

south and chancel
On the south side of the altar via the ambulatory ( an aisle surrounding the end of the choir or chancel of a church ) is a stairway climbing to Calvary ( Golgotha ), traditionally regarded as the site of Jesus ' crucifixion and the most lavishly decorated part of the church.
Its plan consists of a two-bay nave, a south aisle, a vestry, and a narrower and lower single-bay chancel.
" This was variously interpreted over the years to mean the north side of the front of a fixed altar, the north end of a fixed altar ( i. e., facing south ), the north side of a free-standing altar ( presumably facing those intending to receive the Elements who would be sitting in the quire stalls opposite ), or at the north end of a free-standing altar placed lengthwise in the chancel, facing a congregation seated in the nave.
It stretches all the way across the church, and is made up of three separate screens: a rood screen across the chancel arch and parclose screens across the north and south chancel aisles.
The central portion of the church, the chancel and the nave, was built in the 1200s, the north aisle in the 1400s ( as was the tower ), and the south aisle in the 1500s, along with the lychgate and the south porch.
With the chancel built, work reached the south aisle and moved on through the nave until its completion around 1390.
The monks had, apparently willingly, already signed the Oath of Supremacy, and were given generous pensions-Elisha Ferrers, the last Abbot, became Vicar of Wymondham ( the fine sixteenth century sedilia on the south side of the chancel is said to be his memorial ).
In the two world wars, a total of 171 members of Hertford College died ( those of World War I are commemorated by a memorial on the south wall of the chancel in the Chapel, while those of World War II are remembered in a memorial in the portico, to the right of the Chapel door ).
The shafted south-east angle of the 12th century nave is still visible outside, while the chancel has 12th century windows to the north and south.
The architect had drawn up plans to restore the south transept and central tower too, but sadly these were never realised, leaving the south transept as a ruin sealed off by the 1877 ' temporary ' brick wall and leaving the church in an odd truncated state today ( comprising half the nave, the chancel, north transept and base of the crossing ).
That grave can be seen to this day in the chancel of what is now Southwark Cathedral near London Bridge on the south bank of the Thames.
St. John the Baptist is a building of stone overlooking the Humber, consisting of a west tower, a small nave ( wide and long ) with a chancel and a south vestry attached.
The chancel and south aisle were enlarged in 1892 and the east end of the south aisle has been used as a chapel since 1927.
Earliest surviving material includes parts of the nave north wall including parts of an originally external zigzag string course, the north and south transepts and the external clasping buttresses of the chancel.
A new south window was fitted in the chancel at this time.
All that remains of the old church are the central tower, south wall of the chancel and the south porch.
The present roof of the nave and south porch are 15th century, when the chancel was also rebuilt.
The two windows in the south wall of the chancel are probably of about 1340.
Image: Princes Risborough church Piscina in chancel. jpg | Piscina in south wall of chancel

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