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Nunnery North


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Wooden and Reinforced Concrete Lintels

Front (south) facade (cf. groundplan at right).
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
Ground plan, showing main building with 11 doorways in front and 1 on each end; all 13 doorways lead to 2 rooms, a front room leading to an inner-back room; also showing buildings added at left and right of Grand Staircase.
Scanned from Eduard Seler, “Die Ruinen von Uxmal,” 1917 (fig. 41).
Recent wooden lintels in front of deteriorated reinforced concrete lintel behind.
Jan. 2001
Second doorway from right.
Jan. 2001
Same doorway as in photo at left; reinforced concrete lintels installed 1955, now deteriorating.
Jan. 2001
Same doorway as in photos at left, showing concrete fallen away from reinforcing bars.
Jan. 2001 (flash)
Wooden lintels for doorway into back room.
Jan. 2001 (flash)
Same doorway as in photo at left, showing new concrete lintel behind wooden lintels.
Jan. 2001 (flash)
 
 

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