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St Stephen's Chapel

A lower false ceiling was installed in the chamber to help to improve its acoustics, the quality of which was important in an age without artificial amplification.


Bejsce

It was modelled after Wawel’s Sigismund's Chapel, and the Bejsce chapel is regarded as one of the finest examples of Renaissance chapels in Poland.

Bernolák

Anton Bernolák´s Chapel, in Nové Zámky, Slovakia, built in 1722 in the baroque style

Carlton Dramatic Society

Prince Philip aware of the hype surrounding the production invited the society to perform the play in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Dan Wakefield

Dan became an atheist in college, and did not return to church until 1980 when he went to a Christmas Eve service at King's Chapel, Boston.

Ethel Anderson

She was asked by the rector of St James' Church, Sydney to help decorate the Children's Chapel and designed a mural scheme for it which was executed by the group in 1929.

Fishermen's Chapel

Nearby is seen the head of one of the Magi, with the name " Melchior " above it, and close by another of the Wise Men bearing the inscription "les Mages".

George baronets

The George Baronetcy, of Park Place in the County of Middlesex and of St Stephen's Green in the County of Dublin, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

Harold Osbaldestin

Osbaldestin's marriage to Jane Ellen (Nellie) Gregson took place on Tuesday 27 December 1932 at St Stephen's Church, Whelley, Wigan.

Hugh Clopton

Clopton's chapel and Clopton Bridge are still notable features of modern Stratford.

Hugh Pearson

From 1876 until his death in 1882, Pearson was also a Canon of the Eleventh Stall at St George's Chapel within Windsor Castle, during the reign of Queen Victoria.

Jewel House

Although a treasury had been found in the Tower of London from the earliest times (as in the sub-crypt of St. John's Chapel in the White Tower), from 1255 there was a separate Jewel House for state crowns and regalia, though not older crowns and regalia, which remained at Westminster Abbey.

John Whichcord Jr.

One of Whichcord's best-known works was St Stephen's Club, Westminster (built 1874, demolished 1994), a classical building with boldly corbelled projections, facing Westminster bridge.

Josefa de Godoy di Bassano, 2nd Viscountess of Rocafuerte

Her maternal grandparents were Sir Lawrence Crowe, Lord of St Stephen's Green House, and Lady Lucinda O'Donovan O'Neill, both from Dublin, Ireland.

Keith's Chapel

When his wife died in January 1750, Keith combined the announcement of her death in The Daily Advertiser with an advertisement for his chapel's services.

King's Chapel

King's Chapel was founded by Royal Governor Sir Edmund Andros in 1686 as the first Anglican Church in New England during the reign of King James II.

KOCY-LP

From the mid-1990s until 2000, the station carried programming from LeSea Broadcasting-owned general entertainment/religious network World Harvest Television; for the next two years afterward, it ran religious programming from The Shepherd's Chapel Network.

Miles Salley

He was buried in The Gaunt's Chapel, Bristol, where a fine chest tomb surmounted by his effigy exists on the north wall of the chancel.

Philip Down

Since 1995, Down has ministered in Kent – initially as Rector at St Stephen's, Canterbury until 2002, during which time he was additionally Area Dean of Canterbury from 1999.

Polish Golden Age

In architecture, Renaissance and Mannerism prevailed (see Renaissance in Poland, Mannerist architecture and sculpture in Poland), with best examples being the Sigismund's Chapel of the Wawel Cathedral, tenement houses, churches and town halls in Poznan, Krakow, Zamosc, Kazimierz Dolny, Lublin, Lwow, Gdansk and other cities, as well as castles (Pieskowa Skala, Krzyztopor, Krasiczyn, Baranow Sandomierski and others).

Prince Aribert of Anhalt

On 6 July 1891, he married Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein at St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.

Prince Oscar Bernadotte

They were married 15 March 1888 in St Stephen's Church in Bournemouth in England by the vicar Gustaf Beskow, who was close to the queen, Sofia of Nassau, in the presence of Oscar's mother, Queen Sophia, his brothers, two of his brothers, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke and his cousin, the Danish crown princess Louise of Sweden, as well as the mother and brother of Ebba.

Queen Elizabeth's Hospital

In addition, the school choir often sings Council Prayers at the Lord Mayor's Chapel on College Green, where school founder John Carr is buried.

Samuel Appleton

Appleton served as a vestryman of King's Chapel from 1830 to 1840, and monument to him sits on the north wall of the chapel.

Sanchet D'Abrichecourt

In 1348 he was selected by Edward III as a founder Knight of the Garter and allocated stall number 25 in St George's Chapel at Windsor, the spiritual home of the new order of chivalry.

Shrine of the Holy Relics

The collection of relics is the second largest in the United States with 1,100 relics, exceeded in number of relics only by Saint Anthony's Chapel in the Troy Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh with five thousand.

St Benet's Chapel, Netherton

Curtains hang from the pediment, which are open to display a descending dove, a Gloria and cherubs' heads with wings.

St Chad's Chapel, Tushingham

:For the church on the main road nearby see St Chad's Church, Tushingham

St Chad's Chapel, Tushingham is in the scattered community of Tushingham in the civil parish of Tushingham cum Grindley, Cheshire, England.

St John's, Redhill

Pearson's building is typical of his major churches, and shares characteristic features with such buildings as St Stephen, Bournemouth, All Saints, Hove, St Augustine, Kilburn and St John, South Norwood.

St Martin's Chapel, Chisbury

St Martin's Chapel, Chisbury is a Mediaeval former chapel next to the manor house in the hamlet of Chisbury, Wiltshire.

St Mary the Virgin's Church, North Stoke

The Trust administers five former churches in West Sussex; the others are at Chichester, Church Norton, Tortington and Warminghurst.

St Saviour's Chapel

In 1975, the parishioners offered the building to the Christchurch Diocese and the decision was made to give the chapel to Cathedral Grammar School.

St Stephen's Church, Bristol

The site was on the banks of the River Frome, which was diverted at around this time to create Bristol Harbour.

St Stephen's Green

One of the more unusual aspects of the park lies on the north west corner of this central area – a garden for the blind with scented plants, which can withstand handling, and are labelled in Braille.

St Stephen's Green station

An extension of the LUAS Green Line is planned to cross the River Liffey, and intersect with the Red Line at the junction between O'Connell Street and Abbey Street and terminate at Broombridge (in Cabra) to interconnect with the Irish Rail Broombridge railway station.

Similar plans for a DART network extension proposed an underground stop at St Stephen's Green.

St Stephen's, Walbrook

On 14 July 1994, the church was the venue for the wedding of Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones to Daniel Chatto.

St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton

The 20th-century stained glass consists of a 1969 window by Carl Edwards, commemorating women and featuring an image of the now demolished All Saints Cathedral in Cairo, and a 1982 piece by Michael Farrar-Bell which portrays the nature reserve at Pagham Harbour and its animals and birds.

St. George's Chapel, Chatham

It was presented by Ritula Shah and guests include; Tom Newton Dunn, the political editor of The Sun newspaper, Clare Gerada (GP and Medical Director of the NHS Practitioner Health Programme), Lord Trimble (Irish Politician) and Angela Eagle (Labour Party MP).

St. Marys, Pennsylvania

The Decker's Chapel and John E. Weidenboerner House are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Staggers

St Stephen's House, Oxford, an Anglican theological college nicknamed "Staggers"

The Boxer

The recording was performed at multiple locations, including Nashville, St. Paul's Chapel in New York City, and Columbia studios.

Tushingham cum Grindley

St Chad's Chapel, Tushingham is a Grade I listed building, and it is reported that there appears to have been a chapel present there since the fourteenth century.

Valson Thampu

Valson Thampu is an Indian educator, Christian theologian, who is the present Principal of St Stephen's College, University of Delhi, Delhi, since 2008.

William Child

In 1630 he began his lifetime association with St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, becoming first a lay-clerk and, from 1632, Master of the Choristers there until the dissolution of the chapel in 1643.

William Denys

She died in 1593 and received the honour of burial at the Gaunt's Chapel, Bristol.

William W. Park

Known as "Rusty" since childhood, Park is a Justice of the Peace in Massachusetts and a long-time member of the congregation of King's Chapel in Boston, where he has held the post of Senior Warden and currently serves as Trustee.


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