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Roman building   /rˈoʊmən bˈɪldɪŋ/   Listen
Roman building

noun
1.
A building constructed by the ancient Romans.






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"Roman building" Quotes from Famous Books



... built entirely of white marble with shafts which look, as do those of the south transept door, almost like Cipollino, taken perhaps from some Roman building. It has well-moulded arches and abaci; capitals richly carved with realistic foliage, and on each side six of the apostles, all very like each other, large-headed, long-bearded, and long-haired, with rather good drapery but bodies and legs which look far too short. St. Peter alone, ...
— Portuguese Architecture • Walter Crum Watson

... masonry, of the mixed description of brick and stone, regularly disposed, is found in walls at York, Lincoln, Silchester, and elsewhere; and sometimes we meet with bricks or stone arranged herring-bone fashion, as in the vestiges of a Roman building at Castor, Northamptonshire, and the walls of a Roman ...
— The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. • Matthew Holbeche Bloxam



Words linked to "Roman building" :   edifice, basilica, building, antiquity, Roman basilica



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