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... niches ) reached 2.3 metres . As to its architecture the wall can be associated with the models of the Rhineland but ... niche in the prison wall . Cells had no heating . The first - floor cell's doors , which had powerful ashlar side ...
... niches ) reached 2.3 metres . As to its architecture the wall can be associated with the models of the Rhineland but ... niche in the prison wall . Cells had no heating . The first - floor cell's doors , which had powerful ashlar side ...
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... niche . The building's high gable is separated from the façade's lower part by a simple cornice and is articulated by four laconic pointed - arch shallow niches and three quatrefoils . In the two central niches there are the traditional ...
... niche . The building's high gable is separated from the façade's lower part by a simple cornice and is articulated by four laconic pointed - arch shallow niches and three quatrefoils . In the two central niches there are the traditional ...
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... niches for sculptures ( which have not been preserved ) . The decorative frieze under the cornice consists of small ... niche . In the niche a semidecayed corpse is depicted , the frog and the snake on its chest symbolizing transience ...
... niches for sculptures ( which have not been preserved ) . The decorative frieze under the cornice consists of small ... niche . In the niche a semidecayed corpse is depicted , the frog and the snake on its chest symbolizing transience ...
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15th century alms-house altar ANNO apothecary arch architecture ashlar Baroque basement bastion bell Big Fortress brotherhood building building's built carved cathedral chancel chapel Christ Classicist Coast Gate coat of arms construction convent courtyard decorated defence destroyed dwelling-house east ensemble epitaph erected Estonia façade floor fortifications gable Gothic GOTT ground plan hall-church Holy Ghost Church iconostasis inscription interior jalg Johann Kadriorg Palace Livonian Order Livonian War Lord Lübeck mantle chimney master medieval metres monastery motifs nave niches north aisle Northern War original ornamentation outer paintings palace Pikk Street pillars portal preserved pulpit quadrangular Rävala rebuilt reconstruction Renaissance side south aisle spatial form spire St George's Chapel St Mary's St Mary's Cathedral St Nicholas St Olaus staircase stone storehouses storey structure survived tablet Tallinn tomb chest tomb monument Tõnismägi Toompea tower Town Hall town's two-aisled upper vestibule wall wing wooden