Borgia was originally buried in a marble tomb beneath the altar of the Church of Santa Maria in Viana with an inscription " Here lies in little earth one who was feared by all, who held peace and war in his hand.

Made entirely of black marble, except for the base and cornice, the altar would have made a striking impression.

:" At Pergamum there is a great marble altar, high, with colossal sculptures, representing a battle of the giants.

Other important works from his period in Poland were the tomb of Casimir IV in Wawel Cathedral, the marble tomb of Zbigniew Oleśnicki in Gniezno, and the altar of Saint Stanislaus.

According to legend, a round marble altar, Altar of Dis Pater and Proserpina (), was miraculously discovered by the servants of a Sabine called Valesius, the ancestor of the first consul.

The church is dedicated to the Virgin, and built in the form of a cross, consisting of a nave and four aisles — The old grand altar dated to 1628 and was built from Carrara marble wrecked on the coast, during its transit from Genoa to Antwerp.

In 1980 during the re-ordering works carried out in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, the caen stone side altars, marble altar rails, carved pulpit, original high altar and Telford Pipe Organ were removed.

It has also a marble high altar by Andrea della Robbia including a pre-existing fresco by Parri di Spinello ( 1428 – 1431 ).

The altar floor and sanctuary wall contain Italian and French marble inlaid with Portuguese onyx.

These treasures consist of marble altar tables, three Alabaster sculptures, several paintings and two carved oaken confessionals.

The one in the octagon at the east end of the chancel rests on the site of the medieval high altar which bore the silver reliquary casket containing the remains of St. Olav, the church's and the kingdom's patron saint, and is designed to recall in marble sculpture the essential form of this reliquary casket.

He was reburied in the nave near the altar to St Mary, with his old marble tomb replaced above his new resting place.

The polychromatic architectural details of the altar are imitation marble, their features are bronze.

The enclosure is presided over by an altar of veined marble, and the sarcaphogi are bronze and marble.

The Chapel of Sf Anthony of Padua holds a Baroque altar made of polychrome marble and a glass window of the 17th century.

) Paul's tomb is below a marble tombstone in the Basilica's crypt, at below the altar.

On 6 December 2006, it was announced that Vatican archaeologists had confirmed the presence of a white marble sarcophagus beneath the altar, perhaps containing the remains of the Apostle.

Altar rails are a set of railings, sometimes ornate and frequently of marble or wood, delimiting the chancel in a church, the part of the sanctuary that contains the altar.

* In the right transept, the monument to Gian Giacomo Medici di Marignano, called " Medeghino ", by Leone Leoni, and the adjacent Renaissance marble altar, decorated with gilt bronze statues.

The altar is of white Carrara marble.

The main altar is made up of Carrara marble and it boasts a peculiar beauty.

The main altar is made up of Carrara marble.

In the college's chapel, itself decorated with works by Canadian artists, is an altar made of marble from parts of St. Paul's Cathedral, in London, England, that were damaged in the Blitz and donated by Dean of St. Paul's Walter Robert Matthews.

The reredos, the altar, the pulpit by Grinling Gibbons, originally marked on its panels with the Royal Cypher and Donum ( given ) 1683, the altar rails, the attractive marble font and its carved wood cover, are all part of the original furniture of the church.

A new roof was added in 1897 while the wooden altar was replaced by a new set of marble altar, altar rails and reredos ( all shown in the photograph above ).

The chancels of many of Wren ’ s city churches had chequered marble floors and the chancel of St Magnus is an example, the parish agreeing after some debate to place the communion table on a marble ascent with steps and to commission altar rails of Sussex wrought iron.

A pavement of reddish brown and grey marble to the west of the altar rails was said to date from the original gothic church.

The Armagh archdiocese also removed its marble high altar, tow side altars with their respective reredoses, pulpit and rails.

The walls and floors were repaired and a sacred heart altar with marble rails was erected.

Pels also sent a check for $100 to Russell's widow and had a white marble monument erected on his grave.

He ordered to be erected in the heart of St. Peter ’ s Basilica an iconostasis, situated between six onyx and marble columns which had been sent to Gregory as a gift from the exarch Eutychius.

In the Middle Ages, the Torre delle Milizie and the convent of St. Peter and Domenic were built, and above Constantine's building was erected the Palazzo Rospigliosi ; the two famous colossal marble statues of the " Horse Tamers ", generally identified as the Dioscuri with horses, which now are in the Piazza Quirinale, were originally in this Palazzo.

The tomb of William I of Sicily ( the founder's father ), a magnificent porphyry sarcophagus contemporary with the church, under a marble pillared canopy, and the founder William II's tomb, erected in 1575, were both shattered by a fire, which in 1811 broke out in the choir, injuring some of the mosaics, and destroying all the fine walnut choir-fittings, the organs, and most of the choir roof.

When Valerian sunk under the weight of shame and grief, his skin, stuffed with straw, and formed into the likeness of a human figure, was preserved for ages in the most celebrated temple of Persia ; a more real monument of triumph, than the fancied trophies of brass and marble so often erected by Roman vanity.

At the beginning of it stands the marble triumphal arch with a single archway, and without bas-reliefs, erected in his honour in 115 by the Senate and Roman people.

* The marble Arch of Trajan, 18 m high, erected in 114 / 115 as an entrance to the causeway atop the harbour wall in honour of the emperor who had made the harbour, is one of the finest Roman monuments in the Marche.

Another relic from the Middle Ages in Modena is the Preda Ringadora, a rectangular marble stone next to the palace porch, used as a speakers ' platform, and the statue called La Bonissima (" The Very Good "): the latter, portraying a female figure, was erected in the square in 1268 and later installed over the porch.

The fine black and-white marble arcaded façade was erected in the mid-14th century by Matteo da Campione.

* In 2001, Dare County erected a marble monument to the Freedmen's Colony at the Fort Raleigh Historic Site.

Only a small marble fragment, a carved rose excavated by William Stukeley, survives which is currently preserved in Stamford Museum. See below for the modern monument erected by Smith of Derby Group.

Its length from east to west is accurately determined by the fact that the Via Appia, which runs from north-west to south-east from Casilinum to Calatia, turns due east very soon after passing the so-called Arco di Adriano ( a triumphal arch of brickwork, once faced with marble, with three openings, erected in honour of some emperor unknown ), and continues to run in this direction for 1, 600 m ( 6000 ancient Oscan feet ).

:" numberless buildings erected in the very water, for the bed of the lake in this part is rock ; and they have built pleasure houses that are supported on columns of marble, rising up out of the water.

In the square dedicated to him, facing the palace of the Archiginnasio, the ancient seat of the University of Bologna, a big marble statue has been erected to the scientist while observing one of his famous frog experiments.

Marble gravestones were placed over each grave and a large marble obelisk was erected to honor the dead.

Carmel at Naples, founded by his mother for the good of his soul ; and here in 1847 Maximilian, crown prince of Bavaria, erected a marble statue by Bertel Thorvaldsen to his memory.

A seven-foot high marble statue of Palmerston was erected in the park and unveiled on 2 June 1869.

The recently restored Sicilian marble statue of John Gray ( Irish politician ) | Sir John Gray, designed by Thomas Farrell and erected in 1879.

After Barbauld's death, a marble tablet was erected in the Newington Green Chapel with the following inscription:

A 20-meter marble statue was erected there, depicting Cochrane heroically reaching toward the future.

A bronze statue was erected in his honor by the citizens of Padua, while his native city commemorated their great compatriot by a marble statue.

A small marble tablet was erected to his memory on the south wall of the church by his niece Phillis Blake.

He would either dedicate the tripod to some deity or set it upon the top of a marble structure erected in the form of a small circular temple in a street in Athens, called the street of tripods, from the large number of memorials of this kind.

In Wantage, in 1877 he paid for a marble statue of King Alfred by Count Gleichen to be erected in the market place, where it still stands today.

The Corinthians erected to his memory a pillar on which rested a dog of Parian marble.