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The nave was re-covered with an elliptical domical vault hidden externally by a low cylinder on the roof, in place of the earlier barrel vaulted ceiling, and the original central dome from the Justinian era was replaced with one raised upon a high windowed drum.
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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.
He was cremated and his ashes buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey, close to those of Lord Passfield and Ernest Bevin.
Paschasinus further ordered the reinstatement of Theodoret and that he be given a seat, but this move caused such an uproar among the council fathers, that Theodoret also sat in the nave, though he was given a vote in the proceedings, which began with a trial of Dioscorus.
He had two large alabaster urns transported from Pergamon and placed on two sides of the nave in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and a large wax candle dressed in tin which was donated by him to the Rila monastery in Bulgaria is on display in the monastery museum.
This was renovated first in 1415 and again in 1635 – 1666, with the heightening of the aisles and nave, the addition of a bresbytery, a dome and of the chapel of St. Joseph.
His first feature film, La nave bianca ( 1942 ) was sponsored by the audiovisual propaganda centre of Navy Department and is the first work in Rossellini's " Fascist Trilogy ", together with Un pilota ritorna ( 1942 ) and Uomo dalla Croce ( 1943 ).
* The Old Cathedral ( Duomo of San Corrado ) was built in the 12th – 13th centuries in Apulian-Romanesque style, using local stone on a basilica plan, a nave with two aisles divided by four central cross-shaped pilasters.
The mosaic pavement of the nave was completed in the 16th century, and has disks of porphyry and granite with marble bands intermingled with irregular lines.
New work on the present Gothic cathedral of Rouen was begun, in the nave, transept, choir, and the lowest section of the lantern tower.
The nave of the church of Saint Ouen was completed at last, but without the facade flanked by twin towers.
A hundred years later, the old nave of Saint-Denis was rebuilt in the Gothic style, gaining, in its transepts, two spectacular rose windows.
By extension it was applied to Christian buildings of the same form and continues to be used in an architectural sense to describe those buildings with a central nave and aisles.
The old building was a fine example of simple and massive Romanesque, as the nave testifies, and has a beautiful doorway in its west front.
Dating from the late Norman period, it was transformed in the 13th century when the nave was shortened and the façade added.
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The church is on the Latin cross plan, with a nave and two aisles with three apses decorated by a frieze.
Its plan has a single nave divided into four sections, highlighting the retables of Juan Sánchez Cotán and the chancel's glass doors, adorned with mother-of-pearl, silver, precious woods and ivory.
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.
Winchester's major landmark is Winchester Cathedral, one of the largest cathedrals in Europe, with the distinction of having the longest nave and overall length of all Gothic cathedrals in Europe.
It appears his designs would have made the church a good deal gloomier than the final design, with massive piers all the way down the nave, " like an alley " according to a critical posthumous analysis by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.
It is the second largest church in the city after the cathedral and is built on the Latin cross plan, with a perimeter of 80 x 40 meters comprising a nave and two aisles.
The interior, with a nave and two aisles, houses a wide cycle of 18th century frescoes, some altarpieces by Gandolfino d ' Asti and precious silver artworks from the 15th-16th centuries.
It has a nave and two aisles with a single apse, and a bell tower in Lombard-Romanesque style ranked amongst the most beautiful in northern Italy.
The church consists of a vast nave of eleven bays, entered by a narthex, with a transept and short apsidal choir.
The subjects in the nave begin with scenes from the Book of Genesis, illustrating the Old Testament types of Christ and His scheme of redemption, with figures of those who prophesied and prepared for His coming.
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Pisa Cathedral, built between 1063 and 1118, includes a high elliptical dome at the crossing of its nave and transept.
In the 17th century the interior, having a basilica plan with a nave and two aisles, was remade in Baroque style ; also in Roman Baroque style is the elliptical dome.
Instead of the elliptical curve which was given by the intersection of two semicircular barrel vaults, or cylinders, he employed the semicircular arch for the diagonal ribs ; this, however, raised the centre of the square bay vaulted above the level of the transverse arches and of the wall ribs, and thus gave the appearance of a dome to the vault, such as may be seen in the nave of Sant ' Ambrogio, Milan.
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