coping stone

The coping stones on top of the wall should be bedded in a stronger mix.

Pieces of coping stone and mortar have broken off the side of the building.

The King laid the last coping stone with a silver trowel and declared the bridge open.

The stone is red sandstone with freestone corners and coping stones.

For the nuclear element in electricity privatisation is the coping stone on which the flotation plans are based.

The roof was lipped with a low wall, set on top with eroded coping stones.

He supposes that some frogs are sitting on the coping stones of a circular lily pond.

The tremors caused heavy coping stones to shift and cracks appeared in the faces of the dam.

They were using a loose coping stone on the , embankment near the Festival Hall.

As a result of the collision, plates in her hull were sprung open by falling coping stones from the quayside.

Ten years ago, vandals had flung its coping stones into a pond; graffiti-smeared walls were tumbling.

He slipped his pistol into his pocket and pulled the small man easily onto the coping stone of the abutment.

The coping stones of this well were later uncovered during work to underpin the railway bridge, and rescued by a signalman.

Many coping stones were discarded during the deck replacement project; they were placed in the field behind the viaduct.

Kaa had only just worked his way over the west wall, landing with a wrench that dislodged a coping stone into the ditch.

The imposing steeple, 192 ft high, was added in 1868, the coping stone being fixed by Lord Napier.

Yesterday's work included some renovation of the parapet atop the building, which is made of two brick rows topped by coping stones.

It was now complete and the coping stone to it was an interview I had with a doctor in Harley Street.

There would be a foundation of larger stones and a row of coping stones (larger than the rest) standing on edge to complete the top.

The final layer on the top of the wall also consists of large stones, called capstones, coping stones or copes.

The parapets are plain and are surmounted by chamfered coping stones which are joined by iron ties.

Firstly the volunteers cleared away the undergrowth the limited remains of the platform, with its attractive stone front wall and stone coping stones came into view.

Although the stone urn itself was missing, its coping stone and a number of bone fragments were found close to the window mentioned in the Portuguese sources.

Class 153 DMUs are banned from this station because the body-side steps under the doors foul the platform coping stones here.

The ogee profile of the coping stones on the front boundary wall is his personal "trade mark" and is found on most of his buildings.