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View of the steeple from the north Main portal View of the choir screen and the organ. The Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Protestant Church (Église protestante Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune; [1] German: Jung-Sankt-Peter protestantisch) is one of the most important church buildings of the city of Strasbourg, France, from the art historical and architectural viewpoints.
The Minnesota Security Hospital is a secure psychiatric hospital located in St. Peter, Minnesota. It serves people who have been committed by the court as mentally ill and dangerous. It was established as St. Peter State Hospital in 1866 under the Kirkbride Plan. [1] [2] The original building is mostly demolished [3] though the hospital is ...
The Basilica di San Pietro di Castello (English: Basilica of St Peter of Castello), commonly called San Pietro di Castello, is a Roman Catholic minor basilica of the Patriarch of Venice located in the Castello sestiere of the Italian city of Venice. The present building dates from the 16th century, but a church has stood on the site since at ...
The origins of the Vatican Grottoes date back to the 16th century, specifically around 1590–1591, when they were constructed to support the floor of the Renaissance-era St. Peter's Basilica. The initial concept was proposed by architect Antonio da Sangallo the Younger to Pope Leo X following Raphael 's death in 1520.
St Peter's Church was established to provide a place of Christian worship for the town's expanding population. The Manchester Mercury of 9 December 1788 recorded: "We hear that the first stone of an intended new church in this town, to be called St, Peter's will be laid on Thursday next. The building is to be executed in stone after designs ...
The interior is on the basilica plan, with three naves divided by two series of large columns, and a wooden ceiling. The presbytery is quite large, with barrel vaults and two small side chapels. Aside from the high altar , there other minor altars, three for each nave.
The two sets of conventual buildings fell into ruin. At Jarrow substantial ruins survive next to St Paul's church. The site of each house is a scheduled monument. [2] [3] On the Monkwearmouth site St Peter's church is a Grade I listed building. [4] On the Jarrow site both St Paul's church and the monastery ruins are Grade I listed buildings.
The Priory Church of St Peter with its monastery (Dunstable Priory) was founded in 1132 by Henry I for Augustinian Canons in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England. [1] St Peter's today is only the nave of what remains of an originally much larger Augustinian priory church.