The fortress incorporates some of the pre-existing southern walls, the pre-existing structures including the keep of Santo Martini, the San Giovanni tower and an ancient basilica which now serves as the fortress chapel. Though the town itself was eventually conquered, the fortress itself was never taken, an admirable feat, considering the size of the Sienese and Florentine forces that besieged Montalcino at varying intervals.

The walls of the chapel are host to impressive stained glass donated by Roman Catholics to commemorate the events in More's life.

The tomb of Saint Margaret and Malcolm Canmore, within the ruined walls of the Lady chapel, was restored and enclosed by command of Queen Victoria.

Built by the knight Fra Giorgio Nibbia in 1612, the walls of the chapel were covered with human skulls, bones and even complete skeletons.

During this period, wood clapboard siding was applied to the original adobe chapel walls as both a cosmetic and a protective measure ; the veneer was later removed when the Mission was restored.

In reality, Postnik Yakovlev went on to design more churches for Ivan and Kazan's Kremlin walls in the early 1560s, as well as the chapel over St.

The Parisian scholastic Jean de Jandun praised the building as one of Paris's most beautiful structures in his " Tractatus de laudibus Parisius " ( 1323 ), citing " that most beautiful of chapels, the chapel of the king, most decently situated within the walls of the king's house, enjoys a complete and indissoluble structure of the most solid stone.

According to a communication from Andreas of Trebizond to Pope Sixtus IV, by the time of its demolition to make way for the present chapel, the Cappella Maggiore was in a ruinous state with its walls leaning.

The ceiling of the chapel is a flattened barrel vault springing from a course that encircles the walls at the level of the springing of the window arches.

During occasional ceremonies of particular importance, the side walls are covered with a series of tapestries, the originals of which were designed for the chapel by Raphael and depict events from the Life of St. Peter and the Life of St. Paul as described in the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles: the full-size preparatory cartoons for seven of the ten tapestries are known as the Raphael Cartoons and are in London.

When the Mexican soldiers breached the north outer walls of the Alamo complex, most of the Texians fell back to the barracks and the chapel, as previously planned.

Inscriptions were left upon the walls of the chapel by Mary, Queen of Scots ' Scottish guards: on the right, " Man's anger does not accomplish God's Justice " ( dated 1543 ) and " Do not let yourself be won over by Evil " ( dated 1546 ).

The bones were arranged along the walls in varied designs, and the friars began to bury their own dead here, as well as the bodies of poor Romans, whose tomb was under the floor of the present Mass chapel.

Pugin were commissioned to transform the ruined chapel of the old Bishop's Palace into a medieval-style banqueting hall, with a huge perpendicular stained-glass window, choir-stalls and Gothic stenciling on the walls and roof timbers.

Plan of Framlingham castle: A-Inner Court ; B-Lower Court ; C-Bailey ; D-town walls ; E-poorhouse ; F-site of first Great Hall ; G-site of chapel ; H-well ; I-site of kitchen ; J-Postern Gate ; K-Prison Tower

Upper town: ( oldest part, remains from the 13th and 16th centuries, town walls still standing ), old town hall ( 1662 ); the Martinsturm is considered the landmark of Bregenz ( late Roman core, chapel with frescos from 1362, from 1599 to 1601 a storey was added, biggest Baroque bulb-shaped steeple in Central Europe, houses the Museum of Military History ); Gothic parish church of St. Gall ( the Roman-Romanesque foundations date from before 1380, rebuilt around 1480, from 1737 to 1938 altered by F. A.

By the time of Henry's deposition in 1461, the chapel walls had been raised 60 ft high at the east end but only 8 ft at the west ; a building line which can still be seen today as the boundary between the lighter stone below and the darker above.

Within its walls there is a 12th century chapel containing reused late Roman capitols, and a shipwreck museum.

The central arch over the iconostasis and the ceiling and walls of the south chapel are the best examples of Italian Gothic stone-carving in Greece.

Until around 1870, most buildings ( except for the church, chapel, school, and the three houses from the Georgian period ) were made of mud walls and cob with thatched roofs.

In the course of the building of underground subways, into the late 1980s, the foundation walls of the Ludwig chapel were found, which are after-drawn at the place now.

This interior is not decorated, with murals or gold leaf like the main church or the Tercera Orden chapel ; rather the walls are plain and The main altar is between the center of the structure and the back wall, leaving an area free.

The most important buildings on the island were built in the ninth century AD, including a church, a chapel dedicated to religious martyrs, a monastery on the eastern end ( with its walls still seen today ) and a cistern in the center of the island ( a part of which can still be seen.

The large sandstone walls still bear convict markings, and the complex features six wings surrounding a circular chapel.

These included a chapel, a porch going into the great hall from the great chamber ( which was probably the large dining room ), a wardrobe, the Lord's chamber and outer chamber, the Lady's chamber, a bakehouse, brewhouse, pantry, washhouse and low washhouse, a round tower, a square tower and a turret, round towers on either side of the gatehouse and walls running along the waterside, a porter's lodge, a dungeon, a square room, little kitchen, old kitchen, a kennel and a range of stables.

The substantial remains of the western cardo have now been exposed to view near the junction with Suq el-Bazaar, and remnants of one of the tetrapylones are preserved in the 19th century Franciscan chapel at the junction of the Via Dolorosa and Suq Khan ez-Zeit.

It is thought the monks of Kirkstall may have built a small chapel there during their tenure for the convenience of those in charge residing there and their tenants, but the records are uncertain.

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.

Saint Francis of Assisi, in Catholicism, is said to have received instruction directly from God and it is believed that he grants plenary indulgence to all who confess their sins and visit his chapel on the appropriate day.

The line of trees that cuts across the base court today is a relatively modern mid-19th century addition, and originally this court would have been more open, save for the collegiate chapel that once stood in front of the stables.

It was the first funeral home in northeast Texas to have its own chapel.

Pembroke College is home to the first chapel designed by Sir Christopher Wren and is also one of the Cambridge colleges to have educated a British prime minister, William Pitt the Younger.

Scholars have often noted that the shadows of the figures all fall away from the chapel window, as if the figures are lit by it ; this is an added stroke of verisimilitude and further tribute to Masaccio's innovative genius.

In another version, the person who brought the variety to Rhône is even named, being the crusader Gaspard de Stérimberg, who is supposed to have built the chapel at Hermitage.

The wines that made Syrah famous were those from Hermitage, the hill above the town Tain-l ' Hermitage in northern Rhône, where an hermitage ( chapel ) was built on the top, and where de Stérimberg is supposed to have settled as a hermit after his crusades.

Old buildings originating from all over the region have been moved here to form a typical cluster of farm buildings including " open hearth " houses, sheds, outhouses, smokehouses and a small chapel.

On the day of his death he woke up very early in the morning, went to chapel and meditated for three hours, sang a song on Kali and then he whispered, " If there were another Vivekananda, then he would have understood what this Vivekananda has done!

Both the chapel and the salle du Tau have decorative tapestries of the 17th century, known as the Perpersack tapestries, after the Flemish weaver who executed them.

Staff have reported hearing screaming and crying and even thumping on the chapel doors, visitors have also claimed to have had unpleasant encounters.

No certain records of his movements exist for the period from March 1478 until 1483, but if he remained in the employ of René he would have transferred to Paris in 1481 along with the rest of the chapel.

Bishop Robert Gordon, a staunch Jacobite whose house in Theobald's Row was one of Charles's safe-houses for the visit is the most likely to have performed the communion, and a chapel in Gray's Inn was suggested as the venue as early as 1788 Magazine, 1788.

The ossuary, popularly known as The Chapel of Bones, was a vaulted underground crypt, possibly beneath the Nibbia chapel, but could also have been in close vicinity, and is reputed to be still extant, where bones from a cemetery of those who had died at the Sacra Infermeria were placed in patterns and designs as mural decorations, hence its name.

Many missions have preserved ( or in some cases reconstructed ) historic features in addition to chapel buildings.

The only version of the flag known to have survived the war was subsequently lost or stolen from the chapel at West Point.

The Mission chapel, along with " Father Serra's Church " at Mission San Juan Capistrano, is one of only two surviving buildings where Father Junípero Serra is known to have officiated ( although " Dolores " was still under construction at the time of Serra's visit ).

The composers of these operas are not known: they may have been Poles working under Marco Scacchi in the royal chapel, or they may have been among the Italians imported by Władysław.

A further chapel, circular in plan, was added beyond that to house further relics of Becket, widely believed to have included the top of his skull, struck off in the course of his assassination.