Sentences with phrase «stone wall carved»

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The village church where Strickland is buried has images of turkeys depicted in stained - glass windows, a carved lectern and even stone sculptures on the walls.

The apses often had stone altars (which were frequently carved with spiral or animal designs), carefully plastered floors and walls, and other decorations painted with red ocher, a pigment probably imported from Sicily.

The main villa is an architectural masterpiece of polished coral stone floors, carved pillars and dramatic archways set against an artistic counterpoint of native blue bit stone walls inlaid with seashells from around the world.

Mia floated through, enjoying her unique perch of hearing a patois of French, Catalan, Spanish and English as we soaked up the yellow - pink - light - from - within stone on the arches, and fountain, and the carved sacred symbols on walls all across the monastery.

The houses here have a traditional architecture with carved gateways, surrounded by stone walls.

Stepping stones lead to a shaded Palimanan stone terrace where traditional Balinese doors open onto an elaborately carved feature wall running the full length of the suite.

Amongst the medieval buildings of Estonia's capital Tallinn you'll see modern restaurants amongst carved stone walls, colourful boutiques and innovative galleries.

Guests can choose to stay in special cave rooms or specially carved stone rooms combining subterranean spaces with its rough - hewn walls and stone archways with terraces and balconies.

On entering a beautiful stone carving rests on the wall welcoming you to the villa and you will enjoy the pool, 4 comfortable bedrooms and bathrooms, a fully equipped kitchen and breathtaking rice field views.

It's been lovingly restored with an arched ceiling from rustic creamy stone and the decor is kept simple with just some lovely details like a carving of the city along the wall.

In this small valley is a carved stone gateway, ancient disused bathing places (the king's on the left, the queen's on the right), and three meditation niches hewn out of the rock face, with slanting roofs and carvings decorating the wall above.

Angkor Wat (the temple) is an indisputably impressive sight with it's giant surrounding moat, five majestic towers and dozens of stone walls intricately carved with floral designs, dancing nymphs and massive battle scenes.

Award - winning Balinese architect Popo Danes curated the design, crafting contemporary interiors with an Asian twist using Indonesia's abundant natural materials — elaborately carved sandstone walls, polished teakwood floors, paras stone sun decks, marble basins and terrazzo baths.

Designed by famed Balinese architect Popo Danes, Cemara's five ocean - facing living and sleeping pavilions feature light interiors liberally adorned with finely crafted local materials: alang - alang thatched roofs; Palimanan and terrazzo floors; river - stone walls; elaborately carved and gilded teakwood doors.

Chichen Itza is home to numerous other buildings and sites including the Jaguar Throne in the Interior Temple, the Temple of the Warriors, the Great Market, the Great Ball Court, the Temple of the Jaguars, the ancient Sweatbaths, the Platform of the Skulls, the Mayan Nunnery, El Caracol astronomical observatory, the Cenote of Sacrifice, among other great sites with incredible stone figures and wall carvings.

In modern times, the souk has had a considerable facelift with shops and outer walls made from stone and beautifully carved wooden ceilings.

There are abundant stone carvings to ad aesthetic appeal to the villa walls, plus there is even specially designated space for the villa spa.

As you walk past high walls of carved stone, through doorways and tunnels, you wonder how such a complex system of buildings was ever constructed while imagining what more you may have been able to see should it ever have been totally completed.

The bathroom has a central bathtub large enough for two with a beautiful tropical garden carved stone wall feature.

Local artisans hand - carved the magnificent stone walls around the entrance pavilion; while andesite walkways, shrines and high paras stone walls are all of local origin

The area devoted to structures will have several works, including WHAT IS SET UPON THE TABLE SITS UPON THE TABLE, a sculpture of a wood table supporting a piece of trimmed limestone by Lawrence Weiner, combined with a partially carved foundation stone from the Jerusalem wall, on loan from the Jewish Museum..

One sees these carved into the stone walls of the ancient 9th century temples in Borobudur, Yogyakarta, preaching the story of Buddha to the initiates.

Spiralling stone walls will be carved with images of extinct species - with space reserved for future extinctions - at this observatory and education centre designed by Adjaye Associates for the Isle of Portland, England.

Materials from slide projections, Xerox wall murals, carved stone; film and video have been used in performative ways, thus exploiting their materiality.

Make the most of exposed stone walls by leaving your hallway clear apart from one statement piece of furniture, like this carved wooden bench, which feels as natural as the stone.