Word: transepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...north transept of St. Peter's was screened off. Brussels carpets covered extra pews. Primates and Cardinals, Archbishops and mitred Abbots in scarlet and purple robes sat and deliberated. There were strolls in the Borghese gardens and midnight consultations in the overcrowded inns. The youngest delegate was the Archbishop of Baltimore, the late Cardinal Gibbons. The shrewdest was the Archbishop of Westminster, Henry Edward Manning. To his delight he was nicknamed by the other delegates Il Diavolo del Concilio...
...avoid confusion, the Seniors and their guests are requested by the Dance Committee to enter by the South Door and leave by the North Door. In case of rain, chairs will be moved from the Delta into the Hall and Transept...
Three suggestions were made: 1) To build an extension behind the north transept of the Abbey on the St. Margaret Church side. 2) To build a cloistered extension behind Henry VII's chapel, adjoining Charter House. 3) To erect an independent hall of fame. A site suggested is that of the Westminster Hospital, opposite the Abbey...
...found the little chapel in the north transept burled deep among the shadows and the silence. It was light enough to read the bronze tablet: "This chapel was restored in 1907 in memory, of John Harvard by the sons and friends of Harvard University." and, opposite, another tablet, saying that the window was given by Joseph Choate, Harvard, 1862: American Ambassador in London...
...Germanic Museum are two fine monuments dating from the thirteenth century and illustrating the transition from the Romanesque to the Gothic period. The monuments which have been added to the group of similar status already in the Museum, are the figures of Abraham and Melchisedec from the Transept of the former Augustinian Church of Wechselburg in Saxony. Both of these figures, mediaeval symbols of secular and ecclesiastical authority, are remarkable examples of human characterization. Abraham is represented as wielding the sword against the hostile powers of the world, while Melchisedec is shown carrying a cup of libation for spiritual evils...