4 examples of hexastyle in sentences

This once elegant edifice was of the Doric order, a hexastyle, the columns twenty-seven feet in height.

Names were applied to the temples as well as to the porticos, according to the number of columns in the portico at either end of the temple,such as the tetrastyle (four columns in front), or hexastyle (when there were six).

The entrance-hall is protected by a hexastyle (six column) portico of that singular Athenian order, which embellishes the door of the Tower of the Winds.

The west front, in our Engraving, is occupied by an hexastyle portico of the Ionic order, with fluted columns.

4 examples of  hexastyle  in sentences