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Agostino Carlini

He is particularly noted for various church monuments, including a memorial to Lady Sophia Petty at All Saints' Parish Church, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and one commissioned by Joseph Damer in 1775 to commemorate his wife Caroline, which stands in the north transept of Milton Abbey in Dorset.

Almonry

At Bishopstone church, Wiltshire, it is a sort of covered porch attached to the south transept, but not communicating with the interior of the church.

Bari Cathedral

The present building was constructed between the late 12th and late 13th centuries, mostly in the last thirty years of the 12th century, and was built on the site of the ruins of the Imperial Byzantine cathedral destroyed in 1156 by William I of Sicily known as the Wicked (il Malo); to the right of the transept it is still possible to observe traces of the original pavement which extends under the nave.

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.

Cecily of York

A stained glass portrait of Cecily, originally from a larger "royal window" depicting Edward IV's family, is in the north transept of Canterbury Cathedral, and another stained panel is now in Glasgow's Burrell Collection.

Clare Leighton

In the 1950s she created designs for Steuben Glass, Wedgwood plates, several stained glass windows for churches in New England and for the transept windows of Worcester Cathedral, England.

Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral

Only the rood screen, choir stalls, altar, statues and furniture (with the exception of an Easter chandelier by Philippe Caffieri) were destroyed, though three transept towers were razed.

Cotham, Bristol

The apse, tower, south transept and school were added in 1863 by Edward William Godwin.

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.

Edward Pakenham

There is a statue in his memory at the South Transept of St Paul's Cathedral in London.

Edward Woore

After Parsons' death on 30 September 1934, Woore took over and completed many of Parsons' commissions, such as the north transept window of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town.

English Gothic architecture

At York Minster there is, in the north transept, a cluster of five lancet windows known as the Five Sisters, each fifty feet high and still retaining ancient glass.

Flaminio Vacca

His sculptural work can be seen in Rome in the grandiose funeral chapel of Pope Pius V designed by Domenico Fontana at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore (Saint Francis), in the Church of the Gesù (one of four marble angels in the third chapel on the right) and in the right transept of the Chiesa Nuova (Saint John the Evangelist and Saint John the Baptist, both signed).

Fraumünster

Equally impressive is the 9m tall stained glass of the North transept, created by Augusto Giacometti in 1940.

James Darcy Lever

A memorial window designed by H.Gustave Hiller of Liverpool was installed in the north transept at All Saints Church, Thornton Hough.

Liverpool Blitz

Liverpool Cathedral was hit by a high explosive bomb which pierced the roof of the south-east transept before being deflected by an inner brick wall and exploding mid-air, damaging many stained glass windows.

Manor Church Centre, Egremont

In the transept is a window of 1908 designed by William Aikman and made by Powell's depicting The Sower.

Nidaros Cathedral

The main organ was built by the Steinmeyer firm in 1930, and was erected in the north transept.

Northampton Cathedral

Albert Herbert was the architect and he oversaw the original east end being replaced by a straight east end as well as the transepts and a crossing tower being built.

Old Cambrai Cathedral

Another excavation in 1954, in advance of building work, uncovered the foundations of the south transept and another in the 2000s for the construction of the Lycée Fénelon's gymnasium revealed some buildings from the adjoining archbishop's palace, a golden key and other finds.

Portsmouth Cathedral

The north tower transept contains a ceramic plaque of the Virgin and Child by the Florentine sculptor Andrea della Robbia.

Redvers Buller

There is a memorial to Buller, in the form of his recumbent effigy, in the north transept of Winchester Cathedral, England.

Santa Felicita, Florence

In the church there are also the Martyrdom of the Maccabees (1863) by Antonio Ciseri in the 3rd chapel on the right, the Meeting of St. Anne and St. Joachim, attributed to Michele Tosini, at the end of the right transept, the Assumption of the Virgin with Saints (1677), attributed to Baldassare Franceschini, at the end of the left transept.

Santa Maria presso San Celso

Notable are the Baptism of Jesus by Gaudenzio Ferrari and Giovan Battista della Cerva, the Fall of St. Paul by Moretto and, on the altar of the right transept, an altarpiece by Paris Bordone.

Santo Spirito, Florence

Also in the transept is a choir from which the Frescobaldi Marquisses could participate to the rites without being seen by the crowd.

St Andrew's Church, Burnham-on-Sea

Between 1305 and 1314 the original church was either replaced or enhanced; the parts of that church that still stand are the south transept, the south door arch, the holy water stoop and the consecration cross.

St. Nicolai Church

On display in a glass-covered sarcophagus in the northern transept are the remains of the Haraldskær Woman, one of the best conserved of the iron age bog bodies.


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