Sentence examples for secular buildings from inspiring English sources

Considerably less is known about palaces or other secular buildings at this time.

By the late Gothic period greater attention was being given to secular buildings.

The city's secular buildings include several fine medieval and Renaissance palazzi.

Centuries ago church-commissioned domes towered above secular buildings in prestige.

Famous secular buildings include the late Gothic Palais de Justice and the 16th-century Hôtel de Bourgtheroulde.

Elsewhere in Vietnam, both religious and secular buildings were constructed in the 20th century in provincial versions of Chinese styles.

Notman's only surviving secular building in downtown Philadelphia is a private library, the Athenaeum (1847), on Washington Square.

Twice in the 19th century it was reconverted into a church and, even now, this quintessentially secular building is topped by a large cross.

His most famous work, however, was a secular building, the nobly picturesque Law Courts in London competed for in 1866, begun in 1874, and finished in 1882, after Street's death.

The artist Robert Sowers, who designed the window, was one of the first to incorporate stained glass so prominently in a secular building, a style that was later widely imitated.

The castle was "the most expensive secular building project of the entire Middle Ages in England".