The result is that the Cathedral reflects a hodgepodge of architectural styles, with a Gothic nave, a Romanesque crossing under the dome ; chapels in French, English and Spanish Gothic styles, as well as Norman and Byzantine ; Gothic choir stalls, and Roman arches and columns separating the high altar and ambulatory.

The stalls of the monks, forming the ritual choir, occupy the four eastern bays of the nave.

Scott was a steadfast supporter of the Gothic revival and designed the tomb of the first bishop ; he had a new bishop's throne built ( 1903 ), together with commemorative stalls for Bishop Festing and two Archdeacons, and new choir stalls.

In 1972, to encourage a closer link between celebrant and congregation, the massive nine-ton pulpit along with the choir stalls and permanent pews was dismantled and removed.

New ' lighter ' wood ( limed oak ) choir stalls were put in, and chairs replaced the pews.

After its completion Jehan continued working on the cathedral, and began the monumental screen around the choir stalls, which was not completed until the beginning of the eighteenth century.

The jubé ( choir screen ) that separated the liturgical choir from the nave was torn down and the present stalls built ( some of the magnificent sculpture from this screen was later found buried underneath the paving and preserved, though sadly is not on public display ).

In a few instances, wealthy urban parishes that were cramped for space purchased a complete former monastic church for their own purpose, and many others bought choir stalls and stained glass windows.

The choir stalls retain the coats-of-arms of the knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece.

The choir stalls contain 62 14th-century misericords which are of outstanding beauty — it is worth noting that several of New College's misericords were copied during the Victorian era, for use at Canterbury Cathedral.

The tomb is located above the choir stalls on the Gospel side and is in the Plateresque style.

His grave is in the choir stalls at one side of the church and it is in the Plateresque style.

The heraldic banners of the knights at the time of the change still hang over the choir stalls to this day.

The choir of the chapel contains original oak-canopied stalls, miserere seats, and lofty open screens in the French flamboyant style.

Many fine examples of his work can still be seen in the churches around London-particularly the choir stalls and organ case of St Paul's Cathedral.

Now disaffected as a church, displays Martin Schongauer's masterwork La Vierge au buisson de roses as well as 14th century stained glass windows and baroque choir stalls.

There the names of Fletcher and Massinger appear on adjacent plaques laid in the floor between the choir stalls.

Wooden choir stalls were constructed by 1614 for the main altar by Francesco Brambilla.

The " elephant and castle " from the 14th century choir stalls at Chester Cathedral

A prebendal stall is a seat, usually in the back row of the choir stalls, where a prebendary sits.

In 1524 he also painted the cartoons with Old Testament stories as models for the intarsia panels for the choir stalls of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo.

To the west, under the tower, were the monks ' choir stalls where they sat during services, and further west was a pulpitum or rood screen, which blocked access to the ritual areas of the church.

He had been a choir boy at the Holy Name Cathedral and also served as an acolyte to Father O'Brien.

After proceeding up the nave, he was to kneel and pray at the topmost step of the entrance of the choir, into which he was to be introduced by the bishop or his commissary, and placed in his stall.

Moyers interviewed Collins, Cash, opera singer Jessye Norman, Appalachian folk musician Jean Ritchie and her family, white Sacred Harp singers in Georgia, black Sacred Harp singers in Alabama, and a prison choir at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville.

The song quickly gained popularity and an amended version was sung by a choir of 10, 000 at the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901.

In his last surviving letter from 14 October 1791, Mozart tells his wife that he collected Salieri and Caterina Cavalieri in his carriage and drove them both to the opera ; about Salieri's attendance at his opera The Magic Flute, speaking enthusiastically: " He heard and saw with all his attention, and from the overture to the last choir there was not a piece that didn't elicit a ' Bravo!

A musical child, he sang in the boys ' choir at the Salzburg Cathedral where he is believed to have taken music lessons with Michael Haydn.

The St. Olaf College Choir was established as an outgrowth of the local St. John's Lutheran Church, where Christiansen was organist and the choir was composed at least partially of students from the nearby St. Olaf campus.

A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

The responsories are similar in form to the antiphons, but come at the end of the psalm, being originally the reply of the choir or congregation to the precentor who recited the psalm.

It is said that at this time he instituted a perpetual service of praise, known as laus perennis, by which choir succeeded choir, both day and night ( Montalembert, Monks of the West II, 405 ).

According to their special constitutions the Celestines were bound to say matins in the choir at two o ' clock in the morning, and always to abstain from eating meat, save in illness.

Hopper was voted most likely to succeed at Helix High School, where he was active in the drama club, speech and choir.

From a young age, Enya appeared in many pantomimes onstage at Gweedore's local theatre and sang with her siblings in her mother's choir at St Mary's Catholic Church, Derrybeg.

She still sings in her mother's choir every Christmas at midnight Mass, at St. Mary's Church.

Here he composed a large number of motets and other sacred music, which, being brought to the notice of Pope Urban VIII, obtained for him an appointment in the choir of the Sistine Chapel at Rome with the contralto role.

From 1544 to 1551, Palestrina was organist of the principal church ( St. Agapito ) of his native city, and in 1551 he became maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia, the papal choir at St Peter's.

After Schumann's death at the sanatorium in 1856, Brahms divided his time between Hamburg, where he formed and conducted a ladies ' choir, and Detmold in the Principality of Lippe, where he was court music-teacher and conductor.

In Oxford, it is traditional for May Morning revellers to gather below the Great Tower of Magdalen College at 6: 00 am to listen to the college choir sing traditional madrigals as a conclusion to the previous night's celebrations.

Historical studies of music are for example concerned with a composer's life and works, the developments of styles and genres ( e. g. baroque concertos ), the social function of music for a particular group of people ( e. g. court music ), or modes of performance at a particular place and time ( e. g. Johann Sebastian Bach's choir in Leipzig ).

Professional soloists, a 80 member opera choir, a symphony orchestra and a live audience of 2700 were part of this historic event when Free Will was presented at the medieval castle of Olavinlinna.