He ate what he felt like, slept as much or as little as he pleased, and moved about the draughty rooms of the house, when he was not in bed, with slow, dubious steps, like an elderly tourist in a cathedral.

The statue was placed in the square fronted by the cathedral.

Aachen Cathedral was erected on the orders of Charlemagne in AD 786 and was on completion the largest cathedral north of the Alps.

Ealdred was a monk in the cathedral chapter at Winchester Cathedral before becoming abbot of Tavistock Abbey about 1027, an office he held until about 1043.

How the diocese of Worcester was administered when Ealdred was abroad is unclear, although it appears that Wulfstan, the prior of the cathedral chapter, performed the religious duties in the diocese.

Even after the Norman Conquest, Ealdred still controlled some events in Worcester, and it was Ealdred, not Wulfstan, who opposed Urse d ' Abetot's attempt to extend the castle of Worcester into the cathedral after the Norman Conquest.

Ealdred was back at York by 1069 ; he died there on 11 September 1069, and was buried in his episcopal cathedral.

While bishop he was largely responsible for the construction of a large organ in the cathedral, audible from over a mile ( 1600 m ) away and said to require more than 24 men to operate.

Though God commanded instruments to be used in Temple worship, and the daily life of Israel, the first recorded example of a musical instrument in Roman Catholic worship was an organ introduced by Pope Vitalian into a cathedral in Rome around 670.

Bede's remains may have been transferred to Durham Cathedral in the 11th century ; his tomb there was looted in 1541, but the contents were probably re-interred in the Galilee chapel at the cathedral.

The city flourished, primarily due to wine trade, and the cathedral of St. André was built.

The south tower was completed in the 16th century but the cathedral was only completed in the 19th century with the north tower.

In the 15th century the Norman church of St Petroc was largely rebuilt and stands as one of the largest churches in Cornwall ( the largest after the cathedral at Truro ).

Henry II ordered the building of a new cathedral, which was consecrated May 6, 1012.

While still a youth he was made a canon of Magdeburg cathedral.

Historically, in Europe, a city was understood to be an urban settlement with a cathedral.

This was the great cathedral of the Orthodox Church, whose dome was said to be held aloft by God alone, and which was directly connected to the palace so that the imperial family could attend services without passing through the streets.

In addition to being a place of worship, the cathedral or parish church was used by the community in other ways.

He went on to remain there in a mansion which he may have extended, although there is no source attesting to any significant building activity at Aachen in his time, apart from the building of the Palatine Chapel in Aachen ( since 1929, cathedral ) and the palatial presentation halls.

A cathedral termite mound – a small animal with a very noticeable extended phenotype

The cathedral was extended with an eastern end in the 1960s, commemorated by Benjamin Britten's Fanfare for St Edmundsbury.

The palace basilica was converted and extended, becoming the residence of Pope St. Silvester I, eventually becoming the cathedral of Rome, the seat of the popes as bishops of Rome.

Although extensively refaced, restored and extended in the Victorian period, and then again following severe bomb damage in the 20th century, the main body of the cathedral largely derives from the wardenship of James Stanley ( warden 1485 – 1506 ), and is in the Perpendicular Gothic style.

The basilica of the domus was converted and extended, eventually becoming the cathedral of Rome, the seat of the popes as patriarchs of Rome: see Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano.

The cathedral, consecrated in 1534 and extended in 1795 is connected by a bridge with the old episcopal palace.

While building the present cathedral, the nave was then extended westward and the towers surrounding its entrance were erected during the first half of the 16th century, the first tower in 1507 by Pierre de Valence 87 m high, and the second tower during 1534 and 1547 by Pierre Gadier.

* Mainz Online: Cathedral ( extended history of the cathedral )

The cathedral roof was destroyed during the Irish Rebellion of 1641, but the south transept was re-roofed and extended later in the 17th century when it was converted into a Protestant Church.

The cathedral extended to the opposite side of what is now Main Street.

Apart from building a palace, he extended the cathedral to the point where it was regarded as rivalling St Peter's in Rome ( this cathedral burned down in 1248 and was replaced by the current one ).

Various popes have extended this privilege to abbots, abbesses and some cathedral canons.

St Christopher's was finally extended to its present size in 1973, when it became the co-cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, and more recently the sole cathedral when the former cathedral in Goulburn ceased to be a cathedral of the archdiocese.

The body then lies in state for several days before being interred in the crypt of a leading church or cathedral ; all who have died in the 20th and 21st centuries have been interred in St. Peter's Basilica.

Subsequently he received several ecclesiestical benefices, becoming archdeacon in Bologna ( 1244 ) and Parma ( 1244 / 48 – 1255 ), canon and chancellor of the cathedral chapter in Reims ( 1243 – 1250 ), canon and dean of the chapter in Piacenza ( c. 1247 ) and canon of the cathedral chapter in Paris ( 1244 / 45 – 1270 ).

Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower ( the bell tower of the city's cathedral ), the city of over 88, 332 residents ( around 200, 000 with the metropolitan area ) contains more than 20 other historic churches, several palaces and various bridges across the River Arno.

From this same 10th century on, Compostela became a politically relevant site and several kings of Galicia and of León were acclaimed by the Galician noblemen, and crowned and anointed by the local bishop at the cathedral, among them Ordoño IV in 958, Bermudo II in 982, and Alfonso VII in 1111, so Compostela becoming capital of the Kingdom of Galicia.

Spending more time in the cathedral than he had originally planned resulted in him missing his dinner, doing several hours of night driving, which he hates, and having trouble finding a place to sleep.

The Arab bazaar ( Alcaicería ) is made up of several narrow streets, which start from this place and continue as far as the cathedral

On the grounds of the cathedral, toward the south, are several buildings ( including a Synod Hall and the Cathedral School ), and a Biblical garden, as well as a large bronze work of public art by the cathedral's sculptor-in-residence, Greg Wyatt, known as the Peace Fountain, which has been both strongly praised and strongly criticized.

Its cathedral and several significant monuments were partly damaged by Allied bombing.

In 1793 during the French Revolution, the cathedral Notre Dame de Paris was turned into a " Temple to Reason " and for a time Lady Liberty replaced the Virgin Mary on several altars.

After three days of British bombardment in which 350 bombs partially destroyed the cathedral, the Jesuit school and several civilian buildings, Vernon assumed the impasse in which he was and ordered the withdrawal day 21, leaving the Castle and Greenwich Windsord vessels in the vicinity with a mission to intercept a Spanish ship to approach.

Wells has been used as the setting for several films including: The Canterbury Tales ( 1973 ), A Fistful of Fingers ( 1994 ), The Gathering ( 2002 ), The Libertine ( 2005 ), The Golden Age ( 2007 ), and Hot Fuzz ( 2007 ) The cathedral interior stood in for Southwark Cathedral during filming for the Doctor Who episode The Lazarus Experiment.

To begin the construction, the bishop had several houses demolished and had a new road built in order to transport materials for the rest of the cathedral.

Though several organs were installed in the cathedral over time, the earliest ones were inadequate for the building.

There are several different kinds of vaults that differ between the nave, aisles, choir, and chapels of the cathedral.

The city of Chur suffered several invasions, by the Magyars in 925-926, when the cathedral was destroyed.

The cathedral was rebuilt several times.

The largest and most imposing of the buildings at Glendalough, the cathedral had several phases of construction, the earliest, consisting of the present nave with its antae.

He was regarded by his contemporaries as the one craftsman who had rediscovered and fully understood the long disused art of mosaic, and was employed accordingly between 1481 and 1483 to repair the mosaics over the door of the church of S. Miniato, as well as several of those both within and without the baptistery of the cathedral.

Among the major buildings near to O ' Connell Street are St Mary's Pro-Cathedral ( popularly known as the Pro-Cathedral, which serves as Dublin's de facto Catholic cathedral, though it has never been raised formally to cathedral status, hence the name ), the Rotunda Hospital, which serves as North Dublin's main maternity hospital, and several large modern shopping centres.

The city suffered several invasions, by the Magyars in 925-926, when the cathedral was destroyed, and by the Saracens ( 940 and 954 ), but afterwards it flourished thanks to its location, where the roads from several major Alpine transit routes come together and continue down the Rhine river.

In the United States, there are several instances in which a Roman Catholic diocese maintains two Episcopal See cities, each with their own cathedral or co-cathedral.