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Cambusnethan House

The Priory was built for the Lockhart family of Castlehill and their family crest was carved above the main entrance and etched in every balustrade of the main staircase inside.

Dominican Church, Vienna

The gilded concave-convex balustrade of the rood loft is a typical example of the transition between Baroque and Rococo.

Fletcher Steele

His early garden plans are generally in the English Arts and crafts style of Gertrude Jekyll, Reginald Blomfield, and T. H. Mawson, but ornamented with Italianate detailing such as balustrades, hedges, urns, statuary, stone pineapples, and flights of water steps.

Herren-Sulzbach

Noteworthy inside is the gallery upon eight-sided wooden pillars whose balustrade bears paintings of Bible stories.

James Kent

Bronze statutes of Chancellor Kent and Solon (the Athenian lawmaker whose reforms laid the foundations for democracy) represent law on the balustrade of the galleries of the Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. These statues are among sixteen representing men whose works have shaped human development and civilization.

Joseph Henry

Bronze statutes of Henry and Isaac Newton represent science on the balustrade of the galleries of the Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. They are two of the 16 historical figures depicted in the reading room, each pair representing one of the 8 pillars of civilization.

Maine Central School

It features a low hipped roof crowned by a multi-stage cupola with a Chippendale-inspired balustrade in the Colonial Revival style.

Mexico Academy and Central School

The entry is distinguished by a two story, five bay portico supported by six Ionic columns and crowned by a Chippendale patterned balustrade.

Monumental Cemetery of Bonaria

Infants and children were buried closest to the chapel and hold emotional monuments, such as the sculpture for Maria Ugo Ortu (died aged two) comprising the child resting by a broken column behind a short balustrade in trachyte stone from Serrenti, symbolizing the boundary between life and death.

Netherwitton

The present house, which was built in about 1685, to a design by architect Robert Trollope has an impressive three storey, seven bayed frontage with balustrade and unusual irregular window pediments.

Petr Lébl

Lébl's first theatre direction in the Theatre on the Balustrade, The Maids by Jean Genet, won the second place for the best theatre production in the poll of Czech theatre critics.

Versailles Orangerie

The “Parterre Bas” is bordered on its south side by a balustrade overlooking the Saint-Cyr-l'École.

Villa Borghese gardens

In 2004, a species of Italian snail was discovered, still living on the balustrade after more than 100 years in England.


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