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The church contains fourteen varieties of marble including pillars made of Belgian Red marble, a nave entrance made from Anglesey marble and shafts of Languedoc marble on bases of Purbeck marble. [2] It also contains elaborate woodwork, and in the tower can be found windows of stained glass on the north and south sides, featuring Saint Margaret ...
The cathedral has a Latin cross plan consisting of a vaulted nave, two aisles and two side chapels. [10] Most of the cathedral's floor consists of inlaid tombstones or commemorative marble slabs, similar to those found at St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta and the Cathedral of the Assumption in Victoria, Gozo. The remains of several bishops ...
It functioned as an ecclesiastical and social meeting-place for many people, not just those of the town in which it stood, but also, on occasions, for the entire region. The cathedral often had its origins in a monastic foundation and was a place of worship for members of a holy order who said the mass privately at a number of small chapels ...
Classical music label Deutsche Grammophon will livestream the concert on its Stage+ music streaming service, starting about 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT. Macron: 'Planet was shaken" by Notre-Dame ...
St. Patrick's Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is the seat of the Archbishop of New York as well as a parish church. The cathedral occupies a city block bounded by Fifth Avenue, Madison Avenue, 50th Street, and 51st Street, directly across from Rockefeller Center.
The Cathedral of the Assumption is both the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin and the parish church for the cathedral parish. Located in Carlow town, the cathedral was dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1833. It is known for its beautifully detailed 151 ft (46 m) spire which is one of ...
A new choir screen composed of nine wrought iron grills was put in place in 1760. and a new altar of white marble was installed 1767. The choir also received new carved choir stalls and a new marble floor. [8] During the French Revolution, the cathedral was transformed for a time into a Temple of Reason. Many of the reliquaries and other ...
Cathedral: The Story of its Construction is an illustrated book by David Macaulay. Published in 1973 by Houghton Mifflin, it was the author's first book. Cathedral tells the story of the construction of a great medieval cathedral using pen-and-ink drawings. [1] [2] It won the 1975 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for children's non-fiction. It ...