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Royal and Portal
* Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
Work was begun on the Royal Portal with the south lintel around 1136 and with all its sculpture installed up to 1141.
* Entry for Royal T. Wheeler from the Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas published 1880, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.
* Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford ( 1893 – 1971 ) Marshal of the Royal Air Force and Chief of the Air Staff, Second World War
Construction of the Crossrail Portal at Royal Oak, seen from a footbridge to the west of Royal Oak tube station, July 2011
In March 2010, contracts were awarded to a number of civil engineering companies for the second round of ' enabling work ' including ' Royal Oak Portal Taxi Facility Demolition ', ' Demolition works for Crossrail Bond Street Station ', ' Demolition works for Crossrail Tottenham Court Road Station ' and ' Pudding Mill Lane Portal '.
The second Tunnel Boring Machine " Ada " en route to the Royal Oak Portal, June 2012
* Royal Mail Stamps Portal
The sculptures around the three portals depict the life cycle of Mary and he is the central figure in the Royal Portal.
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford KG GCB OM DSO & Bar MC ( 21 May 1893 – 22 April 1971 ) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.
His younger brother Admiral Sir Reginald Portal ( 1894 – 1983 ) joined the Royal Navy and also had a distinguished career.
At the beginning of First World War, Portal joined the British Army and served as a dispatch rider in the motorcycle section of the Royal Engineers on the Western Front.
In July 1915, with the need for dispatch riders reducing, Portal transferred to the Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ).
In August 1919 Portal was appointed to a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force in the rank of major ( shortly afterwards redesignated as a squadron leader ).
" Penney did not had any knowledge of such committee until he was approached by Charles Portal, Marshal of the Air Force as well as the Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force, to lead the clandestine efforts.
Currently under construction to the North of the Hammersmith & City line, immediately West of Royal Oak Underground Station, Royal Oak Portal is the Western tunnel entrance for the Crossrail scheme to link East and West London by main-line railway.

Royal and Chartres
* 2 August 1674 – 9 June 1701 His Royal Highness the Duke of Chartres ( Monseigneur le duc de Chartres )
Some years later, through the influence of her aunt, Charlotte-Jeanne Béraud de la Haye de Riou, marquise de Montesson, who had been clandestinely married to the Louis Philippe d ' Orléans, she entered the Palais Royal as a lady-in-waiting to their daughter-in-law Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Chartres as the wife of their heir Philippe d ' Orléans, Duke of Chartres.
In May 1772, when the British abandoned Fort Chartres, the 18th ( Royal Irish ) Regiment of Foot, left a small detachment of four officers and 50 men at Kaskaskia as an effort to retain British control over the Illinois Country.
The Western ( Royal ) Portal at Chartres Cathedral ( ca.
The statues on the Western ( Royal ) Portal at Chartres Cathedral ( c. 1145 ) show an elegant but exaggerated columnar elongation, but those on the south transcept portal, from 1215 – 20, show a more naturalistic style and increasing detachment from the wall behind, and some awareness of the classical tradition.
However, the post was known as Ft. Chartres from 1768 on, after the 34th were replaced by the 18th ( Royal Irish ) Regiment under the command of Lt. Col. Wilkins.
On 12 April 2011 a service was held to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the granting of the company's Royal Charter at which the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Richard Chartres KCVO, gave the sermon and blessed the original Royal Charter.
Among the famous stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral in Northern France is the Jesse Tree window, of 1140-50, the far right of three windows above the Royal Portal and beneath the western rose window.
The Western ( Royal ) Portal at Chartres Cathedral, c. 1145, these architectural statues are the earliest Gothic sculptures, a revolution in style and the models for a generation of sculptors
Prior to this, there had been no sculpture tradition in Ile-de-France — so sculptors were brought in from Burgundy, who created the revolutionary figures acting as columns in the Western ( Royal ) Portal of Chartres Cathedral ( see image ) — it was an entirely new invention in French art, and would provide the model for a generation of sculptors.
Its potential to provoke United States annexation ambitions within the goldfields, prompted the governor to send newly-appointed Chief Justice Begbie, the colony's Chief of Police Chartres Brew and a contingent of Royal Engineers and Royal Marines to intervene.

Royal and Cathedral
She was buried in 1928 on her death in Roskilde Cathedral, the burial site of members of the Danish Royal Family.
Sepulcher of king Ferdinand II of León | Ferdinand II ( d. 1187 ), in the Royal Pantheon of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela | cathedral
The Estates of Royal Prussia did not take the side of the Cathedral Chapter.
< center > A view of the Piazza del Duomo, the city's main and most central square, surrounded by several palaces and important buildings, such as Milan Cathedral, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II | Vittorio Emanuele II Gallery and the Royal Palace of Milan .</ center >
* Archbishop Joachim of Nizhny Novgorod: reportedly crucified upside down, on the Royal Doors of the Cathedral in Sevastopol, Russia in 1920
His two brothers were choristers at St. Paul's Cathedral, and Byrd may have been a chorister there as well under Simon Westcote, although it is possible that he was a chorister with the Chapel Royal.
Captain Stairs is commemorated with identical 3 tablets ( c. 1902 ) in the vestibule of Mackenzie Building at Royal Military College of Canada, St. George's Cathedral ( Kingston, Ontario ) and in Rochester Cathedral near Chatham, England.
There are statues representing him at St Paul's Cathedral, Victoria & Albert Museum, Royal Academy of Arts and Victoria & Albert Museum.
In the 19th century it was assumed ( as with so many buildings of medieval Paris ) to be the work of the master mason Pierre de Montreuil, who worked on the remodelling of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis and completed the south transept façade of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
For example, the personal crown used by Isabella I of Castile, her scepters, and her sword, are kept in the Royal Chapel in the Cathedral of Granada.
During the 1980s a number of official events in Cathedral life took place: in 1981, the Prince of Wales visited to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Consecration of the Cathedral ; and on Maundy Thursday 1982, Queen Elizabeth II distributed the Royal Maundy at the Cathedral.
Image: RAH frieze, Peterborough Cathedral. jpg | The cathedral as represented on the frieze around the Royal Albert Hall
In the background can be seen the spire of the old St Andrew's Cathedral: the rest of the building burned down in 1962 and was replaced with a new church on the same site. The Theatre Royal, Dumfries was built in 1792 and is the oldest working theatre in Scotland.
Tippett's second opera King Priam was produced by the Royal Opera in 1962 as part of the festival to mark the opening of the new Coventry Cathedral.
The Stockholm Palace | Royal Palace in Stockholm, as seen from the tower of the Stockholm Cathedral | Cathedral.
Among the attractions in the mainly residential community are the Mount Royal Cemetery, the Salle Claude-Champagne, the Théâtre Outremont, the Saint-Grégoire-l ' Illuminateur Armenian Cathedral and part of the Université de Montréal campus.
Façades of the Stockholm Palace | Royal Palace and Storkyrkan | Stockholm Cathedral facing Slottsbacken.
As well as being home to the Stockholm Cathedral, the Nobel Museum, and the Riddarholm church, Gamla stan also boasts Kungliga slottet, Sweden's baroque Royal Palace, built in the 18th century after the previous palace Tre Kronor burned down.
The new Irish Houses of Parliament, designed by Edward Lovett Pearce, also faced onto College Green, while from College Green a new widened Dame Street led directly down to the mediæval Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, past Dublin Castle and the Royal Exchange, the latter a new building, the former in the process of rebuilding, turning it from a mediæval castle to a Georgian palace.
Starting at the age of five-with piano lessons-he studied diligently and became a student at the Manchester Royal College of Music and at Blackburn Cathedral.

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