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The original nave and chancel of St Giles ' church have been dated to 1335 while the nave was extended west in 1959.
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The original edifice, in Romanesque style, had a nave and two aisles with a semicircular apse.
The work included the installation of fan vaulting in the nave, which was not merely a fanciful aesthetic addition but a completion of the original design.
They indicate that the original church consisted of a nave, possibly with a narthex, and side-chapels to the north and south.
In the current structure the original Norman arches survive principally under the central tower and on the north side of the nave.
The church is Perpendicular in style and although only the nave, aisles and octagonal tower remain of the original building it is still in the best style of its period.
The original cathedral, which had but a single nave, thick walls, and few windows, was replaced by that built by Bishop Oliva.
* St Peter and St Paul, Buckingham Church Buckingham, ( 1862 – 1878 ), additions to the original 1780 church including chancel, buttresses, porch, roof and nave alterations.
The eastern end of the church ( blocked off from the nave by a solid wall since about 1385 ) was destroyed, leaving the present church ( at 70 m .) only about half its original length.
The original nave was blocked off and a new tower erected, and a new carved oak rood screen, incorporating the arms of Scudamore, Laud, and King Charles I, was made by John Abel of Hereford.
This dual role also probably explains the enormous scale of the chapel, which in its original design was to have a nave and two aisles extending to the west.
The Church of England parish church has an 11th century Saxon nave in which two original Saxon windows survive.
Among the many buildings destroyed the parish church of St. Nicholas was levelled however was rebuilt with a modern flavour-the nave retained its original arched windows however the steeple now appears as a crown.
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.
Some of the original building survives, including the nave ( excluding its aisles ), the chancel and the font.
In 1876-77 this desolate ruin was brought back to life as a place of worship after centuries of neglect, when four of the original seven bays of the nave were rebuilt on the old foundations in Neo-Romanesque style by the Gothic Revival architect C. C.
The new basilica has maintained the original structure with one nave and four aisles.
More recently, the tabernacle has been relocated to the right side of the nave of San Lorenzo and reconstructed in accordance with what is believed to have been the sculptor's original intent, although it is thought that a number of elements have disappeared.
The tomb in the nave is believed today not to be Strongbow's, the original tomb having been destroyed centuries ago, an unrelated medieval tomb was moved soon afterwards from a church in Drogheda to Christ Church and placed as a substitute to the destroyed tomb of Strongbow.
The original frescoes have been partly preserved in the altar area, under the dome, on the west wall, and in the lower registers of the nave.
An original coffered ceiling in good condition, covers the central nave was made in the fifteenth century, all multicolored and beautiful execution.
Thus the original St Peter's Basilica in Rome, Milan Cathedral, Amiens Cathedral, Antwerp Cathedral and Notre Dame de Paris are all described as having five aisles, meaning they have two side aisles either side of the central nave.
The building today conserves some of the original built in the 1520s when it was originally built as an open chapel, and ornamental work done in the mid 17th century, when the nave with cannon vault was added.
The original spire fell, damaging the roof of the nave, and a contemporary reference attributes this to " lightning and storms ".
original and chancel
This edifice, in the Perpendicular style, opened for public worship in 1821, occupies the site of the ancient chancel and transepts, though differing in style and proportions from the original structure.
The original church is largely destroyed but in 1828 a Church of Ireland church was built into its chancel.
There is a 15th century chancel screen, though without its original tracery, with crudely re-painted figures below.
The very small chancel, the long nave and the absence of a tower from the original church, point, as the investigators of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments suggest, to the building having been designed for a hospital, infirmary or guest house.
All Saints Church is the oldest surviving building in Loughtonthe chancel and nave probably date from the first years of the 13th century, though all the original details have been removed during subsequent alterations.
There are three original lancet windows of the early 13th century in the east wall of the chancel.
A church has existed on the land at the end of Church Walk since the 12th century ; however all that remains of the original church is the font and an octagonal shaft built into the south wall of the chancel.
The large Perpendicular Gothic window in the middle of the south wall of the chancel was inserted in the 15th century, replacing the Norman original.
In 1988 a large extension was built onto the north side of the nave using the original north door which was reopened when the organ was moved into the chancel to allow for the building.
This church was largely destroyed by the falling of a large poplar tree onto the nave resulting in the original capacity of 500 being reduced to what had been the chancel.
The original structure was demolished in the reign of Henry III, the oldest portion of the present church, in the chancel, is assigned to the year 1280.
In 1891 a new chancel and chancel arch were built, and the original chancel arch was incorporated into the west wall of the new chancel.
The church, dedicated to the Good Shepherd, is believed to be the smallest in England, having been rebuilt using only the original chancel after a fire had destroyed the remainder of the building.
He had saved the original drawings in Venice, so he removed and re-fabricated the chancel mosaic, and redesigned the entire exterior mosaic.
During the renovation after the earthquake, a piece of the original mosaic from the vestibule, with its Chi Rho, was found in the foundation and inserted into the Communion Table in the chancel, linking the current building with the pre-1906 church.
The original chancel and gallery organs for the Riverside Church were built by Hook and Hastings of Boston when the church was opened in 1930.
A new five-manual Aeolian-Skinner chancel console was built in 1948, followed by that firm's new chancel organ in 1953-54, retaining some of the original pipework but replacing some gallery pipework.
Whatever the original intent of the double chancel, the eastern chancel came to serve as the location for the mass and the western chancel was reserved for the bishop and pontiffs.
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