For the occasion the chancel of the Abbey was draped in black from floor to ceiling and a funeral effigy of the earl dressed in scarlet breeches, a military buff-coat and Parliamentary robes was erected beneath a catafalque designed by Inigo Jones.

The most notable Italian catafalque was the one designed for Michelangelo by his fellow artists in 1564.

In 1665, he designed a catafalque commemorating the death of Philip IV of Spain.

It still has a working coffin-lift or catafalque, restored by the Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery in 1997.

The clergy absented themselves in obedience to the archbishop's orders, but mass was sung by the Abbé Grieu assisted by two clerics, the catafalque being decorated with the episcopal insignia.

The gallery and the catafalque below are lit by an oculus, in turn reminiscent of Grant's Tomb.

The coffin is placed on a catafalque and is guarded, around the clock, by detachments each of four men from the following units:

Brassneck was followed a year later by Brenton's The Churchill Play, again staged by Richard Eyre at the Nottingham Playhouse ( 1974 ), another ' state of the nation play ' about the growing conflict between security and liberty, opening with the image of a dead Winston Churchill rising from his catafalque in Westminster Hall.

( May the catafalque now in use for pontifical funeral rites be substituted by a humble and decorous contrivance.

The epitaphios is placed on a beautifully ornate and decorate catafalque or bier before the Lamentations representing the tomb of Christ.

The coffin or casket is usually placed on a catafalque, usually the Lincoln catafalque, so named as it was constructed upon the death of Abraham Lincoln, from when he lay in state following his assassination in 1865.

This chanting is done as all stand holding candles around a catafalque over which has been placed the Epitaphion ( a shroud embroidered with the figure of Christ laid out for burial ).

The casket was placed under the rotunda, where it lay in state on Abraham Lincoln's catafalque.

Lloyd George proposed a catafalque, a low empty platform, but it was Lutyens ' idea for the taller monument.

On his death, a catafalque was built in Rome to commemorate his life.

On the death of King Edward VII in 1910, the young Viscount Gort was a Lieutenant in command of the Grenadier NCOs detailed to bear the coffin and attend the catafalque.

Lincoln's catafalque was most recently used on July 1, 2010 when Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia lay in repose on the floor of the Senate.

His body was laid on a sloped olive-sheeted catafalque and his head propped on a stack of three gold pillows.

Near the catafalque was a wooden crucifix and a paschal candle symbolic of Jesus Christ as the light of the world in the face of darkness and death.

On 4 April, the body of Pope John Paul II was moved onto a red velvet catafalque, with his head propped on three red pillows.

Taut's final work one month before his death was the catafalque used for the official state funeral of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on 21 November 1938 in Ankara.

A catafalque is a raised bier, soapbox, or similar platform, often movable, that is used to support the casket, coffin, or body of the deceased during a funeral or memorial service.

The tomb meant for Washington stored the catafalque which is used to support coffins lying in state or honor in the Capitol.

The catafalque is now on display in the Capitol Visitors Center for the general public to see when not in use.

Members of the household cavalry and other branches of the armed forces stood guard at the four corners of the catafalque.

The Anglican Chapel dominates the western section of the cemetery, being raised on a terrace beneath which is an extensive catacomb ; there is a hydraulic catafalque for lowering coffins into the catacomb.

After he died in 1847, his remains were laid in state on a great catafalque in the Pro-Cathedral.

Following a Roman Catholic Requiem Mass, a catafalque may be used to stand in place of the body at the Absolution of the dead.

In the United States, the Lincoln catafalque, first used for Abraham Lincoln's funeral in 1865, has been used for all those who have lain in state in the Capitol Rotunda since Lincoln's death.

When not in use, the catafalque is kept on display in the Exhibition Hall at the United States Capitol Visitor Center.

The deceased's embalmed body, dressed in a black suit, white shirt and a tie, would be displayed in an open coffin on a catafalque banked with carnations, red roses and tulips, facing the long queue of mourners.

The three pylons would in turn circumscribe a drum-like two-story structure containing a gallery from which visitors could look down at Quezon's catafalque, modeled after Napoleon Bonaparte's in the Invalides.

The deceased's embalmed body, dressed in a black suit, white shirt and a tie, would be displayed in an open coffin on a catafalque banked with carnations, red roses and tulips, facing the long queue of mourners.

The style of life chosen by the beat generation, the rhythm and ritual they have adopted as uniquely their own, is designed to enhance the value of the sexual experience.

She designed and supervised the building of the Harbert, Michigan, house, most of which was constructed by one local carpenter who carried the heavy beams singly upon his shoulder.

The property sales assistance program is designed to assist small business concerns that may wish to buy property offered for sale by the Federal Government.

Section 7 is designed to arrest in its incipiency not only the substantial lessening of competition from the acquisition by one corporation of the whole or any part of the stock of a competing corporation, but also to arrest in their incipiency restraints or monopolies in a relevant market which, as a reasonable probability, appear at the time of suit likely to result from the acquisition by one corporation of all or any part of the stock of any other corporation.

For example, the importance of the Regulus 2, a very promising aerodynamic ship-to-surface missile designed to be launched by surfaced submarines, was greatly diminished by the successful acceleration of the much more advanced Polaris ballistic missile launched by submerged submarines.

Some 45 frequencies are assigned for use primarily by dominant Class 1, -- A or Class 1, -- B clear-channel stations, designed to operate with adequate power and to provide service -- both groundwave and ( at night ) skywave -- over large areas and at great distances, being protected against interference to the degree necessary to achieve this objective.

Completed and opened for traffic in 1852, the bridge was designed and built by Lemuel Chenoweth and his brother, Eli, of Beverly.

Called a `` Slo-Flo '' meter it was designed for this job by Power Plus Industries of Los Angeles, a key individual being Don Nelson.

Although the Taylor Scale was designed as a group testing device, in this study it was individually administered by psychologically trained workers who established rapport and assisted the children in reading the items.

The layout of the sewer lines was designed by Henry W. Taylor, who was the engineer for the Manchester Village disposal plant.

The distances may be marked with indelible ink and a fine-point pen, by sewing fine threads into the fabric, or by a specially designed stamping machine.

Ask to see the modern tapestries of Paris and Rome designed by Lurcat.

Inside you will find the lovely Sibyls painted by Raphael and a chapel designed by Michelangelo.

The report, culminating a year long study of the ADC program in Cook county by a New York City welfare consulting firm, listed 10 long range recommendations designed to reduce the soaring ADC case load.

He said his plan is designed to `` meet the needs of those millions who have no wish to receive care at the taxpayers' expense, but who are nevertheless staggered by the drain on their savings -- or those of their children -- caused by an extended hospital stay ''.

She wore a court-length gown of organdy designed with bateau neckline and princesse skirt accented by lace appliques.

The Junior Achievement program is designed to give teenagers practical experience in business by allowing them actually to form small companies, under the guidance and sponsorship of business firms.

The production, designed by Simon Virsaladze, was completely traditional but traditional in the right way.

The biggest single act would doubtless be staged by Frankie himself: his Inaugural wardrobe had been designed by Hollywood Couturier Don Loper, who regularly makes up ladies' ensembles.