domical
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A careful survey of the building shows clearly that the domical character of the chapel is not original, and that the structure when first erected was a simple hall covered with a wooden roof.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen
In some bas-reliefs, buildings with roofs of a domical shape are represented.
From Architecture Classic and Early Christian by T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith
The narthex is in five bays, the two terminal bays having cross-groined vaults, the three central, vaults of a domical character with blunt rounded groins at the springing.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen
The tower appears to have been added above the north aisle about 1463; it finishes with a shafted parapet and two open octagons with domical roofs, one above the other.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
With the fall of Rome and the rise of Constantinople these forms underwent in the East another transformation, called the Byzantine, in the development of Christian domical church architecture.
From A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised by A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster) Hamlin
