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unusual facts about Aisle



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"Meeting in the Aisle" made its live debut in 2012 on The King of Limbs tour alongside other B sides like The Amazing Sounds of Orgy from Radiohead's back catalogue that had not previously been performed in concert.

Ajanta Caves

The two most famous individual painted images at Ajanta are the two over-life size figures of the protective bodhisattvas Padmapani and Vajrapani on either side of the entrance to the Buddha shrine on the wall of the rear aisle (see illustrations above).

All Saints Church, Bakewell

In the Vernon Chapel (off the South aisle) there are several magnificent tombs: Sir Thomas Wendesley (killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403; John Vernon of Haddon Hall, who died in 1477; and Sir George Vernon and his two wives.

All Saints Church, Orton

In the south aisle is a window designed by Beatrice Whistler (the wife of James McNeill Whistler), made by Campbell, Smith and Company in 1892; one designed by F.

All Saints Church, Staplehurst

Those in the north chapel (one single-light and one two-light window) and the north aisle (three two-light windows) have heraldic badges and emblems, and another two-light window in the north aisle has a Nativity scene.

All Saints' Church, Daresbury

The stained glass in the windows of the south aisle depict the eleven apostles without Judas Iscariot.

Ashby cum Fenby

In the north aisle are monuments to Sir William Wray (d. 1617) and his wife Frances (d. 1647), and to Susanna Drury, sister of Frances.

Bledington

The Church of England parish church of St Leonard dates from 1170: 12th century work includes the nave, pillars, tub font and sanctus bellcote: 13th century south aisle; 14th century windows; 15th century tower, stained glass and tiny chantry chapel: open bell-chamber and ring of six bells.

Boxworth

Recorded from the mid 12th century, when relics of St. 'Inicius' were said to be deposited there, the church of St Peter is an ancient edifice of flint and stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, north and south porches and a lofty embattled tower containing a clock and one bell: in the church is a monument to Nicholas Saunderson LL.D.

Burton, Wiltshire

Most of the ancient glass was destroyed by Oliver Cromwell's men in the Fanatique Tymes, as John Aubrey put it, but some fragmentary pieces remain in the north aisle windows, mainly heraldic forms.

Child's Ercall

The village church has a 12th-century doorway, a 13th-century arcade and 14th-century aisle, as well as stained glass by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Beighton

The work included taking down the walls of the chancel and the south aisle and rebuilding them on the original footprint, the Clerestory windows to the nave were removed, and a gallery at the west end of the church was taken down.

Ciro Rodriguez

His campaign was under-financed, but gained significant momentum after a Washington Post photographer snapped a photo of Cuellar at the 2006 State of the Union address, on the Republican side of the aisle, smiling as President George W. Bush affectionately grabbed his face.

Classical music blog

These include Alex Ross, of The New Yorker (The Rest is Noise), Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle (On a Pacific Aisle), and Jessica Duchen of The Independent (Jessica Duchen's Classical Music Blog).

Cremona Cathedral

The wooden choir, with inlay work by Platina (1482-1490), and the contemporary large altar cross in silver and gold, by Ambrogio Pozzi and Agostino Sacchi (1478), in the right aisle of the northern transept, are also notable.

Durisdeer

Adjoining the church is the slightly earlier Queensberry Aisle, burial place of the dukes, also by Smith, with a large marble monument to the second Duke (1662-1711) and Mary, his duchess, carved by Jan van Nost.

Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire

My body to be buried in the Church of St. Peter of Lufwyke, in the County of Northampton, in Our Lady's aisle, by my grandfather Greene; and I will that my executors make a convenient tomb there for me.

Finmere

In 1856–58 the Gothic Revival architect G.E. Street removed the west gallery, restored the church, widened the chancel arch and added the north aisle.

Flying buttress

An example is found at Chaddesley Corbett, where the wall of the south aisle of the parish church is leaning outwards.

Holly Lynch

She has many commercials to her credit, including the Ford Bold Moves commercial where she pays for the dry cleaning of a man in the car behind hers, the State Farm Insurance commercial where she is "the girl from 4E", and the Corona commercial where she is the girl across the aisle.

Holy Trinity Church, Halstead

 Bewsey, and three windows in the south aisle of 1931–32 are by A. K. Nicholson.

Hortense Ellis

The rise of the Lovers Rock genre in the late seventies and early eighties led to Ellis cutting cover version of several popular soul classics including "Down the Aisle" (Patti Labelle) and "Young Hearts Run Free" (Candi Staton).

Hugh Sempill, 12th Lord Sempill

His remains were interred in the Drum Aisle in the West Church of that city on 1 December following.

John Tregonwell

He died on 8 or 13 January 1564-5 at Milton Abbas, Dorset, for which, after the dissolution, he had paid £1,000, and was buried in the north aisle under an altar tomb.

Junkers Ju 90

On the first four Ju 90As, there were five pairs of rectangular windows on each side, each double pair lighting a divided-off section of the cabin containing eight seats in facing pairs on either side of a central aisle.

Kevin Dillon

Entourage cast member Jerry Ferrara was the best man at the wedding and Kevin Connolly walked Stuart down the aisle after Dillon shouted "Victory!" (a tribute to his character's work on the metafictional TV series Viking Quest).

Margery Beddow

Beddow appeared on Broadway in Redhead, Conquering Hero, We Take the Town, Two on the Aisle, Almanac, Take Me Along, Ulysses in Nighttown, and revivals of Fiorello! and Showboat.

Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Stoney was carried on a stretcher down the aisle of St James's Church, Piccadilly, where he married Mary.

Matt Murley

Murley was invited to his former Pittsburgh Penguins teammate Ryan Malone's wedding on the condition that he brought a date, unable to find one in time Murley walked down the aisle with former teammate Sidney Crosby.

Michael Coveney

His book The Aisle is Full of Noises (Nick Hern Books 1994), a spirited diary of a year in the theatre, was withdrawn following complaints of potential libel from Milton Shulman; although, as reported in The Times of 21 September 1994, Coveney "thought the comments were in the spirit of the book. I rather regret that Milton, of whom I am actually rather fond, didn't take them in that spirit." Most copies of the book had been sold before the withdrawal.

Richard Royston

An inscription in the south aisle of the church describes him as "bookseller to three kings", and also commemorates his granddaughter Elizabeth and daughter Mary (d. 1698), who married the bookseller Richard Chiswell the elder.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth

During restoration work in the Cathedral between 2003 and 2006, the brick and plaster crypt containing the coffins of Bishops Matthew Gibney and Martin Griver was discovered by archaeologists under the floorboards of an aisle in the Cathedral.

S. Maria di Nazareth

More paintings and sculptures are visible in the left aisle where the wooden group representing the Deposition of the 18th century, a Pentecost by Domenico Fiasella, the Transit of St. Joseph by Orazio De Ferrari of 1654, a Madonna del Carmine and a Saints Lawrence and John the Baptist by painter Lazarus Tavarone.

In the nave the largest frescoes of the time are the work of the painter Lazzaro De Maestri of 1893, in the second altar of the right aisle of the painting The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Castellino Castello, in the presbytery and in the apse works Rocco Costa and Giuseppe Galeotti; in the chapel to the left of the nave there is a crucifix in wood of the 12th century from the former parish church of St. Nicolò.

Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet

He was eldest son and heir of William Robinson (bapt. Rokeby, Yorkshire, 23 September 1675, d. 24 February 1720), who married, in 1699, Anne, daughter and heiress of Robert Walters of Cundall in Yorkshire; she died on 26 July 1730, aged 53, and was buried in the centre of the south aisle of Merton church, Surrey, where a marble monument was placed to her memory.

St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes

Later windows include Morris & Co. and Wippell & Co. designs of 1950, both in the north aisle, and a 1956 design by the Barton, Kinder and Alderson firm in the north wall of the chancel.

St Mary's Church, Ewell

A fire in 1973, started by the explosion of the church's central heating boiler, destroyed the North Aisle and everything in it, including an organ built in 1865 by "Father" Henry Willis, except a print of The Light of the World by famous painter and local resident William Holman Hunt, who painted the original by the disused gunpowder mills in Kingston Road.

St Mary's Church, Mellor

The stained glass includes windows in the south aisle by Capronnier dating from the later part of the 19th century, and a window in the north aisle dated 1928 by Whitefriars.

St Mary's Church, West Chiltington

These architectural features allowed worshippers in the aisle to see the bread and wine being consecrated during the Celebration of the Eucharist.

St Peter's Church, Elford

The window at the west end of the south aisle near the entrance is of Flemish glass, said to originate from the Herkenrode Abbey near Liège, like the glass in the Lady Chapel of Lichfield Cathedral.

St. Joseph's Carmelite Church, Berkeley Road

The west end window of the Blessed Virgin aisle is by Hardman & Co..

St. Mary's Church, Walthamstow

In the same year, money from Robert Thorne (a wealthy London merchant who, like Monoux, originated from Bristol and became Lord Mayor of the City of London) was used to completely rebuild the south aisle and to add a chapel on its eastern end.

In 1535, Sir George Monoux, Alderman of London and Master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, one of the guilds of the City of London, repaired the north aisle and built a chapel on the east end of it running along the north wall of the chancel.

Totally Jodie Marsh

Totally Jodie Marsh: Who'll Take Her Up the Aisle? was a British reality television show, which saw glamour model Jodie Marsh audition a potential husband in London, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Birmingham, Cardiff and Bournemouth.

Welford, Northamptonshire

There is a Church of England parish church, St Mary's, which according to Pevsner dating from c.13th century and with a north aisle and arcade of 1872 by Edmund Francis Law).

Wellow, Hampshire

A chancel was added in the Thirteenth Century and a south aisle in the Fifteenth Century, but the church is famous as the burial site of Florence Nightingale, whose family home was the nearby Embley Park, now a private school.

Whitton, North Lincolnshire

A drawing, by Nattes, of 1794 shows a dilapidated structure with a south aisle and a south porch.


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