Sentence examples for great tower from inspiring English sources

This is the great tower block known as the County Offices in Aylesbury, erected in 1963-66.

On the ground floor of the great tower, he insists, there should not be a door, because "they appeared only in the 15th century".

We climb several smaller ones to warm up, then tackle the largest, Veliki Toranj (Great Tower), its peak a Lost World of stunted trees and tiny aromatic herbs.

New Road Great Tower Sleepover, Dover, Sat Adults-only sleepover (nothing dodgy, governor!) in King Henry II's medieval bolthole, with supper and a tour of the keep.

At its most obvious, the Department of Justice report on the Baltimore Police Department added a hundred sixty-three pages to the great tower of foregone conclusions.

Gustave Eiffel, Bartholdi's chief engineer, created its iron skeleton, allowing him to test certain techniques he would use for his great tower in 1889.

The outer bailey includes the Castle House building, now used by the Powis Estate as offices and accommodation, while the inner bailey, separated by a trench cut out of the stone, houses the Great Tower, Solar block, Great Hall and Great Chamber block, along with later 16th century additions, as well as a rare, circular chapel, modelled on the shrine in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

During this period, the Great Tower, a form of keep, was constructed by converting the entrance tower, probably either around the time of the siege of 1139, or during the war between Gilbert and Joce.

It also housed a small Lutheran chapel and a smaller "orlyk" (eaglet), or observation tower, at the top; New Western Tower (or the Great Tower), built in 1544 and which served as a bastion.

Finally, the north side of the tower was rebuilt in the mid-15th century to produce the Great Tower that appears today.

At Raglan, the design highlighted the Great Tower: a typical senior visitor would ride through Raglan village, and first the tower and then the rest of the castle would appear suddenly over the slight rise on the hill.