Sentence examples for stone vault from inspiring English sources

"He wanted to give the illusion of a stone vault," explained Andrea Yost, director of public education at the cathedral.

The Iranians conceived of the cosmos as a three-tiered structure consisting of the earth below, the atmosphere, and the stone vault of heaven above.

He added that part of the stone vault ceiling had collapsed, but the main structure including the main towers had survived.

Franck Riester, the culture minister, said that there were "three important holes" in the stone vault of the cathedral, one caused by the collapse of the spire.

Connection between the two areas was maintained by what was called the Krypte, or Covered Entrance, which pierced the embankment and, in Roman times, was covered with a stone vault.

During a recent tour of one of the houses, Mr. Petrarca was most animated after descending to its dank stone vault, where water dripped from cast iron columns and mottled brick arches.

See history come alive as you tour this painstakingly renovated space of carved wood and stone, vaulted ceilings, stained glass, and wrought iron.

The architecture of the Visigoths was small in scale, but its masonry work was excellent, stone vaulting was often employed, and horseshoe arches were characteristic.

Most of the wooden roof beams have been burned, and parts of the stone vaulting holding up the roof have collapsed.

The historic brickwork of the undercroft's stone vaulting and arcade were revealed for the first time in centuries following restoration work after the Windsor Castle fire in 1992.

Watch your kids' eyes widen when they realize that those stone vaults a few feet away are the crypts of the czars, including the last one, Nicholas II.