Sentence examples for stone lintel from inspiring English sources

Hanging from another wall is a deep-relief stone lintel depicting two deities bowing to the Hindu god of wealth.

They can span much wider openings because they can be made from small, easily carried blocks of brick or stone, as opposed to a massive, monolithic stone lintel.

Incidental Intelligence: On the stone lintel of the outer door of the Department of Justice on Constitution Avenue in Washington is the graven legend.

Nobody knows anything, runs William Goldman's famous verdict on Hollywood, and that motto is being metaphorically chiselled into the stone lintel above Whitehall's newest department.

The date "1851" is engraved in the stone lintel above the Bigelows' front door but the couple thinks the house actually may be older.

With "Erie Railroad" chiseled into its stone lintel, the station, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is the core of an ongoing downtown redevelopment effort.

The front facade is limestone with ample cornices; the rear is brick with stone lintels similar to the original design.

The interiors of Egyptian temples and the exteriors of Greek temples are delineated by columns covered by stone lintels.

Early masonry builders could span only narrow openings because of the necessary shortness and weight of monolithic stone lintels.

Contractors are scheduled to begin removing the building's crown molding, limestone window sills, stone lintels and bricks on Monday.

Mayan inscriptions are found on stelae (standing stone slabs), stone lintels, sculpture, and pottery, as well as on the few surviving Mayan books, or codices.