Word: chapel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heating and ventilating systems of the new Memorial Chapel are of the most modern type. The building, which will be supplied with heat from the University heating tunnels, is being equipped with a complete system of hot air pipes which go to all parts of the structure. The steam enters the building in the basement through a small tunnel leading from the main heat tunnel, which goes past the West end of the Chapel. At the entrance to this small tunnel is the steam control room, where the pressure entering the building can be regulated. The steam is then piped...
...nave of the Chapel is to be separated from the choir by a wooden screen, so that the choir alone will serve as a chapel on week-days, the whole building being used only on Sundays and special occasions. The choir, situated in the East end of the Chapel, is so planned that it will constitute a small chapel in itself, the only changes from the ordinary layout being the addition of some movable seats and the moving of the organ consoles back into niches in the wall, to make more room in the choir...
...stacks. He spent the morning wandering about the Yard trying to seek consolation in self communion. When that failed he invented a new game which served well enough for a time; he tried counting the bricks as the masons were laying up the walls of the new chapel, but he soon lost track. At last in desperation he dropped in to a house for lunch. There were three affable young fellows just sitting down and he helped them in the hope that they might provide some balm for the jaded spirit...
They buried him near Canterbury in a stone chapel. And before his grave they put a little marble slab that men who past that way might worship on their knees. The stone chapel has sunk beneath the weight of ages, but out in a little field there is a grass grown marble slab with hollows where rain water lodges and where knees have been...
...baroque Collegiate Church (Basilica), erected to supersede the chapel, was completed in 1709 at a cost of $3,000,000. This, says skeptical Terry's guidebook, "is no doubt a gross exaggeration." By last week, some $800,000 had been spent in alterations, and clerics and pilgrims were ready for the opening ceremonies of the 400th anniversary fiesta: reconsecration of the altars, high mass, a view of the tilma, its holy image and the bejewelled Sacred Golden Crown of the Virgin, quoted...