Sentence examples for outstanding monument from inspiring English sources

The town's outstanding monument is the elliptical Roman amphitheatre completed about 80 ce and seating 23,000.

In fact, when one reviewer complained that there were too many shots of Lopes climbing up and down the outside walls of the Convento, another quickly replied that it was a small price to pay for the screen time that such an outstanding monument deserved (Carvalho 1923, n.p.).

Among Lübeck's outstanding monuments are the Marienkirche (St.

The two outstanding monuments of this imported style are the windows (c. 1480) of Fairford church (Gloucestershire) and the windows (1515 31) at King's College Chapel, Cambridge, many of which were probably designed by the Antwerp painter and engraver Dirk Vellert.

Some of the most outstanding monuments of the Decorated Gothic style are sections of the cloister (c. 1245 69) of Westminster Abbey; the east end, or Angel Choir, of Lincoln Cathedral (begun 1256); and the nave and west front of York Minster (c. 1260 1320).

Among the outstanding monuments of Vladimir-Suzdal are the church of the Assumption (1158 89), which was to serve as a model for its namesake in the Moscow Kremlin; the church of the Intercession of the Virgin on the Nerl, one of the loveliest creations of medieval Russia (1165); and the church of St. Dmitri (1194 97).

One of the most outstanding monuments in the Samma cluster is the tomb of Jam Nizamuddin, adoptive father of Darya Khan and the most famous ruler of the Samma Dynasty.

Megan Aldrich contends that Burges's interiors at Cardiff have "rarely [been] equalled;" [although] "he executed few buildings as his rich fantastic gothic required equally rich patrons his finished works are outstanding monuments to nineteenth century gothic," the suites of rooms he created at Cardiff being amongst "the most magnificent that the gothic revival ever achieved".

But the potential for serious damage today is too great, both to the landscape and in the case of the Wall, to an outstanding national monument.

Bagan is the outstanding cultural monument of Burma.

His bitterness at continued exile is expressed in letters to his friends the first of a collection of correspondence that became an outstanding and enduring monument of Russian prose.