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The east window of the chapel depicts twelve biblical scenes: the top six depict scenes from Jesus ' life ( including the Last Supper ), whilst the six below depict corresponding scenes from the Old Testament ( including Adam and Eve at Creation and the whale spitting out Jonah ).
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At first there was no passenger service, for south of the station was the Akihabara cargo docks, where goods from all over the world would flow into Kanda by river and be hauled up the east bank of the canal to be ticketed at the central cargo transport window.
in the east window of the north aisle of the presbytery, and in another window of the same aisle, where they are still remaining, and are thus blasoned: Quarterly gules and ermine, on the 1st and 4th three goat's heads erased argent, attired or.
The east and west sides of the first large room are each pierced by large arched fan window.
The east end has a square-framed window of seven lights.
The chancel arch and east window were finely decorated, through many of the stones are now missing.
This stone-roofed building originally had a nave only, with entrance at the west end and a small round-headed window in the east gable.
The east window has two round-headed lights.
All of the church's medieval glass was destroyed by William Dowsing in 1644 ; the only stained glass windows in the church are the east windows over the altar ( 1954, by Sir Ninian Comper ) and the west window below the grand tower.
The east wall of the church probably had five such windows grouped and graded together, but they were replaced in the fifteenth century by one single large traceried window which probably shed more light inside during the morning.
Amongst the changes they oversaw was the removal of the tower ceiling and the addition of stone vaulting as originally featured in the medieval plans. Place was responsible for the design of the east window, based on Hawton church, and the original design for the choirstall canopies.
File: St mary hanwell east window 3435. jpg | East end, St. Mary's Hanwell, Middlesex ( 1841 )
The north end, ( the liturgical east ), has a high rose window, while each long side is pierced by three vast Perpendicular-style windows.
The 14th century chancel probably replaced an apse ; the windows are of 14th century design apart from the east window which holds Victorian stained glass.
In the east end of the church, the early lancet windows were replaced by one huge window of stained glass, misericords were installed in the choir, and the tower was extended.
The Abbey's stained glass is particularly noteworthy, including early work by Edward Burne-Jones in the rose window and lancets of the east wall, and A K Nicholson in the Lady Chapel.
The present choir with its enormous east window was complete by 1294.
It was originally set in the east window in 1767 ; a later version of his work can be seen in New College Chapel.
A major feature is the east window, which contains original medieval glass and depicts the Tree of Jesse, a popular subject of that period.
On 1 September 1939, the day of the German invasion of Poland and the cause of the UK's entrance into World War II, permission was sought from the College Council to remove the stained glass from the east window of the chapel.
The painting was so big that the raised floor of the chapel's east end, required by the 1448 Founder's Will, would have to be levelled so as to prevent the baroque artwork obscuring the bottom of the Tudor east window.
The east window designed by Powell & Sons was added in 1870.
On the west side is a one-bay centrepiece with a window between two Doric pilasters ; on the south and north are three windows with four similar pilasters ; and on the east front is the grand entrance with a portal in a Tuscan aedicule.
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Originally constructed to fill the capacity of a library, museum, and chapel, its original uses are engraved in the exterior stonework on the east side.
He died in August 1672 and his body was entombed in the east wall of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, which sits on the site of Stuyvesant ’ s family chapel.
It is bounded to the north by the Burrough's Building ( added in the 18th century ), to the east by the street, to the south by the Porters ' lodge and to the west by the chapel.
St Michael's Chapel was later built over this ground ( now the Buffs Regimental Chapel ), and the head of his tomb projects into the east end of this chapel, under its altar, with the foot outside it.
On the east side of the ward is the family's private chapel, a Grade II * listed building.
The shrine of Saint Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey remains where it was after the final translation of his body to a chapel east of the sanctuary on 13 October 1269 by Henry III.
The hall and chapel of the infirmary extended east of this cloister, resembling in form and arrangement the nave and chancel of an aisled church.
Adjacent to the east side of the pyramid is a small mudbrick chapel which served as temple for the cult of the dead king.
Whitechapel's heart is Whitechapel High Street, extending further east as Whitechapel Road, named after a small chapel of ease dedicated to St Mary.
Opposite Elephantine, on the east bank at Aswan, Khnum, Satis and Anukis are shown on a chapel wall dating to the Ptolemaic time.
These further wings were intended to contain, in the south east a music room, and south west a conservatory and chapel.
The Great Chamber was probably built across the Inner Court at this time, linking the Great Hall with the chapel and chambers on the east side of the castle, and by 1524 there were at least 29 different rooms in the castle.
The initial acquisition included the parish church of St John ( which was superseded by the chapel ) and three houses to the east of the church which now form the north range of Front Quad.
The south and west ranges and the gate tower were built around 1620 to 1622 ; the north and east ranges and the chapel buildings date from 1637 to 1642.
The façade of the east range forms a classical E shape comprising the college chapel, hall and undercroft.
He was initially buried in the vault at the east end of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey, but following instructions left by Sarah, who died in 1744, Marlborough was moved to be by her side lying in the vault beneath the chapel at Blenheim.
The east court contains the kitchens, laundry, and other domestic offices, the west court adjacent to the chapel the stables and indoor riding school.
When the chapel was constructed 140 years later, it too was built to face east.
It was originally an aisled hall with a chapel at the east end with a vestry on the north side and the warden's lodgings on the south, but both these have been demolished.
The new college site was to be centred on a great courtyard, bordered on all sides by adjoining buildings: a chapel to the north ; accommodation and the entrance gate to the east ; further accommodation and the provost's lodge to the south ; and a library, hall and buttery to the west.
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.
To the east of the range extend the kitchen and the chapel.
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