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unusual facts about Church of St. Andrew, Holcombe



Amy Ridenour

Ridenour has come under fire for allegedly using the NCPPR as a clearinghouse for clients of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff to pay for a luxurious golf trip to St. Andrew's in Scotland, attended by congressman Tom DeLay and others.

Architecture of Serbia

The influence of Byzantine architecture reached its peak after 1300 including the rebuilding of the Our Lady of Ljeviš (c1306-1307) and Church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane as well as the Gračanica monastery.

Baška

Highlights are the early Christian archeological site from the 5th century, the renowned Baška tablet from the year 1100 found in the Church of St. Lucy the nearby Jurandvor, the remains of a Roman settlement, as well as many historical churches and chapels.

Ben Caunt

Ben Caunt is buried outside the north transept of the Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall close to the grave of two of his children who died in the Coach and Horses fire.

C. J. McCoy

McCoy got his start as a football coach at the Sewanee Military Academy, a preparatory school affiliated with the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Charles Douglas Moffatt

From his debut with St. Andrew's from 1891 until his retirement in 1901, Moffatt played all the football seasons consecutively.

Church of St Nicholas, Sapareva Banya

In terms of design and decoration, Mavrodinov likens the church to the Church of St Pantaleon in Gorno Nerezi near Skopje, today in the Republic of Macedonia.

Church of St. Anne, Kraków

The church was first mentioned in 1381 in the deed of donation of Sulisław I Nawoja of Grodziec.

Church of St. Edmund, Dudley

The school building survives, however, and has been used by Muslims since 1978 as Dudley Central Mosque.

Church of St. George, Staro Nagoričane

During this reconstruction period, the church's walls were painted with frescoes by Mihailo and Evtihij, among which are depictions of Stefan Milutin and his queen, Simonida.

Church of St. James Intercisus

The Church of St. James Intercisus is situated in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem.

Church of St. John the Evangelist, Hucknall

It was dedicated on 6 March 1877 by Bishop Tozer, an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Lincoln.

Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Llanfair Kilgeddin

St Mary the Virgin is the parish church for Llanfair Kilgeddin, near Usk in Monmouthshire, south east Wales.

His designs included local features, including the River Usk, the Sugar Loaf and nearby Llanvihangel Gobion church tower.

Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Plumtree

The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Plumtree is a parish church in the Church of England in Plumtree, Nottinghamshire.

Church of St. Mary, Fetcham

It is set off the residential road of its address, The Ridgeway, behind a small park, in the suburban part of the largely 20th century railway settlement adjoining the M25 London Orbital Motorway which has retained farmed rural outskirts.

Church of St. Nicholas Within

In 1469 Edward IV gave the Earl of Worcester permission to found a chantry in honour of God and the Blessed Virgin Mary and to have masses said for the benefit of the founders and all the departed.

It received its name during the episcopate of Alexander de Bicknor (1317–1349), when the parish of St. Nicholas was extended outside the city so as to include the Manor of St. Sepulchre and the Deanery of St Patrick.

Church of St. Onuphrius, Lviv

The Basilian monastery and Greek Catholic church of St. Onuphrius in Lviv, Ukraine is located north of the Old Town, at the base of the Castle Hill.

Church of St. Ouen, Rouen

The history of the abbey, on record from the 1000, is unremarkable; a list of abbots is in Gallia Christiana XI, 140.

Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Amsterdam

It is nicknamed "De Papegaai" (The Parrot) because it was originally hidden in a garden behind a regular housefront that belonged to a bird-trader in the days when Catholicism could not be practised publicly.

Church of St. Peter, St. Albans

In the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders, Ricky and Bianca's second wedding was filmed inside and outside this church.

Thomas Baskerfield's drawings of 1787 give an impression of what the church was like in its essentials for so many centuries.

Coat of arms of Croatia

A Split stone baptistry from the time of Peter Krešimir IV (r. 1058–1074/5) has engraved falcons that carry something that resembles a chequy on their wings, and the bell tower of the medieval Church of St. Lucy, Jurandvor has a checkerboard pattern carved onto it.

Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield

He was buried in the Church of St Cuthbert in Holme Lacy, Herefordshire.

Elkanah Greer

Three years later, he returned to Tennessee to marry a local girl named Anna Holcombe (whose famous sister Lucy Petway Holcombe married Francis Wilkinson Pickens, and became known during the Civil War as the "Queen of the Confederacy").

Eric Boateng

He attended high school at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware.

Ficquelmont Palace

As a sign of his appreciation for Ficquelmont's work, Emperor Nicholas I awarded him the Orders of St. Andrew, St. Alexander Nevsky, St. Vladimir and St. Anna.

Healey Willan

Healey Willan Park is a local public park named in his honour, situated immediately to the east of The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, on the site of the former convent of the Sisters of the Church, which had relocated first to Oakville and later to Burlington.

Hundred of Kilmersdon

The Hundred of Kilmersdon consisted of the ancient parishes of: Ashwick, Babington, Buckland-Denham, Hardington, Hemington, Holcombe, Kilmersdon, Radstock, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, and Writhlington.

Isabel Bassett

She served as the Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for St. Andrew—St. Patrick for the next four years.

John Alexander Douglas McCurdy

He was schooled at St. Andrew's College in Aurora, Ontario and graduated from the University of Toronto in mechanical engineering in 1906, where he had been a member of The Kappa Alpha Society along with his friend Frederick W. Baldwin.

Józef Bilczewski

He initiated the construction of more than 330 churches in the archdiocese of Lviv alone, including the monumental Saint Elizabeth Church in Lviv.

Kirk Varnedoe

He studied at St. Andrew's School and Williams College, where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Society.

Komitas Aghtsetsi

He completely renovated the Cathedral at the Holy See of Etchmiadzin and constructed the Church of St. Hripsime, which stands to this day.

Kościuszko Park

Two unique structures of wooden building in Upper Silesia, a manorial granary from 1688 (burnt in 1970) and the Church of St. Michael Archangel, a wooden church under the invocation of St. Michael from 1510 moved from Syrynia, were placed in the park.

Leland B. Harrison

After his death in 1951, he was buried in the cemetery of the Church of St. James the Less in Philadelphia.

Longstanton

Churches modelled after its architecture have been built as far away as Philadelphia (see Church of St. James the Less) and South Dakota.

Old St. Andrew's

Old St Andrew's Church, Kingsbury, a closed church in the Kingsbury area of Greater London

Order of St. Andrew

The colour of the sash differs from the colour of the Imperial era, and resembles the shade of the sash of the British Order of the Garter.

He witnessed first hand the awards ceremonies for England's Order of the Garter and Austria's Order of the Golden Fleece and noticed the loyalty and pride of the awardees.

Patriarch Nikon

Nikon survived the tsar (with whom something of the old intimacy was resumed in 1671) five years and was allowed to return to Moscow, expiring on his way there, after crossing the Kotorosl River in Tropino on 17 August 1681.

Payne Fisher

Fisher died in poverty in a coffee-house in the Old Bailey 2 April 1693, and was buried 6 April in a yard belonging to the church of St. Sepulchre's.

Pilot Point High School

In 2007 he won the U.S. Amateur Public Links championship and was the inaugural winner of the Mark H. McCormack Medal by The Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrew's for the amateur player.

Robert Dyer

Dyer married Elizabeth Bartlett, daughter of Josiah and Sarah Ann (Hughes) Bartlett, on 15 April 1845, at St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, in London.

Shauna Kavanagh

She attended school at Loretto College Foxrork, and later attended St. Andrews College in Booterstown, Dublin.

St. Andrew's United Church

Westminster Presbyterian was the first established on the site in 1891, it merged with Grosvenor Street Presbyterian in 1921 when the latter church's building was demolished as part of a plan to extend Bay Street.

William Andrew

William E. Andrew, chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.


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