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St. Peter's Square is a large plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, the papal enclave inside Rome, directly west of the neighbourhood or rione of Borgo. Both the square and the basilica are named after Saint Peter, an apostle of Jesus considered by some to be the first Pope.
The Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano), or simply St. Peter's Basilica (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri), is an Italian Renaissance church in Vatican City, the papal enclave within the city of Rome.
Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and the largest church in the world. While it is neither the mother church of the Catholic Church nor the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, St. Peter's is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic shrines. It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world" and as "the greatest of all churches of Christendom".
Catholic tradition holds that the Basilica is the burial site of Saint Peter, one of Jesus's Apostles and also the first Pope. Saint Peter's tomb is supposedly directly below the high altar of the Basilica. For this reason, many Popes have been interred at St. Peter's since the Early Christian period, and there has been a church on this site since the time of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. Construction of the present basilica, which would replace Old St. Peter's Basilica from the 4th century CE, began on 18 April 1506 and was completed on 18 November 1626.
St Peter's Church, Heysham Village.
Further information at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Church,_Heysham
St Peter's is one of Nottingham's oldest and main churches. It dates to the 12th-Century with the tower and spire added in the 14th-Century. The inside looks like any other English Parish church with fine stained glass windows along with a couple modern looking windows in the Aisles.
This is St. Peter in Chains Cathedral, the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati, located along Plum Street in Downtown Cincinnati. Designed by architect Henry Walter, it was built between 1841 and 1845, the Greek Revival-style Church was the first Church of its size west of the Appalachian Mountains, and was built when the city was the only major population center not on the east coast. The church features a single white limestone spire above the main entry, with minimal details, which rises 224 feet above Plum Street, which was the tallest structure in the city for much of the 19th Century. Below the spire and around the front entryway is a colonnade 33 feet high, which encloses the portico on the front of the church, and Corinthian capitals that are unique in their appearance. The interior features Greek-themed mosaics, Corinthian columns, and large bronze doors, which sets it apart from most other Catholic cathedrals in the United States. The church is the third to be home to the diocese, having been originally located in the city’s first Catholic Church, known as Christ Church, before moving to the old St. Peter’s Cathedral in 1826. Within a decade, the old church was too small for the growing Catholic population of the city, and plans for the current church were put forth. By the 1930s, however, the church had become dilapidated and needed many repairs, leading to the diocese moving uptown to St. Monica’s Church in CUF in 1938, and the church’s decline continued for the next decade and a half as it was used as a parish church. However, in the mid-1950s, major work was undertaken on the structure under the leadership of Archbishop Karl Joseph Alter, and the church was restored, renovated, and expanded, modernizing the old structure and allowing the archdiocese to return to it, with rededication as a cathedral occurring in 1957. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and continues to be the seat of the Catholic Church in Cincinnati, which has long had a large Catholic population and is home to many spectacular parish churches and institutional buildings associated with the church.
St. Peter's church is one of the oldest and most valuable monumental medieval architectural building in the Baltic States. It is situated in the historical centre of Riga and was included in UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997.
The Building was first mentioned in the annuals in 1209.
St. Peter’s church Chillingham occupies the site of a 12th Century church, retaining some of its Norman stonework. The interior is an unusual mixture of old and new. As well as ancient stone work, 19th century boxed pews, the sanctuary was completely refurbished in 1967, and a millennium plaque recognises that Christian worship has been offered on this site for over a thousand years.
Perhaps most significant is the famous 15th century tomb of Sir Ralph Grey sited in the South Chapel. A detailed description of this tomb was published by the Society of Antiquities.
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Immaculate Pearson interior
Unfortunately we found the church locked. There was an apologetic notice saying that it was now a requirement of the insurers that it should be kept locked.
The church seems at first sight a gloomy Victorian conceit, poking an urban nose over the fields of the Daylesford estate. Yet it is one of Pearson's most perfect small works, built in 1859-63 for Harman Grisewood, successor to Warren Hastings as owner of the big house. Like Pearson's Scorborough (Yorks, ER), which was being built at the same time, the church is a bold design in the French Early Gothic idiom. It is built on a cruciform plan, with diminutive chancel and transepts round a massive central tower with a sturdy pyramidical spire. To the north is a Plate tracery window in the nave and a wheel window in the transept. Equal care is taken with the smaller decorations.
The interior, at least on a sunny day with light filtered through the windows, has the character of a dark and mysterious jewel box. The stained glass is by Clayton & Bell, as vivid and confident in style as the work of the Morris.
(Simon Jenkins: England’s Thousand Best Churches)
St Peter, Spixworth, Norfolk
Curious church in a pretty village on the outskirts of Norwich. Highlights include a life-size twin cadaver memorial. The church is very welcoming, and the graveyard is known for its snowdrops.
St Peter's Archabbey, otherwise St Peter's Abbey (Stift Sankt Peter) in Salzburg is a Benedictine monastery.
Salzburg,
Austria
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St. Peter's Catholic Church was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on 7/19/1989 for its areas of significance in exploration/settlement and architecture.
In August of 1891, the parish began construction on the present church. Frank X. Baube of Sioux City was the builder. Two differing totals for the cost of the new brick building, 17,800.00 dollars and 14,224.00 dollars, are recorded in parish records. It is not known which figure is correct. Services were first held in the new edifice in February, 1892, and dedication ceremonies took place in July of that same year. The French language was used in services until 1939.
Rising prominently above its surrounding landscape in the flat plain of southern Union County, St. Peter's Catholic Church is a large brick church building with early Romanesque Revival features. The church complex consists of the church edifice, rectory, cemetery, school building, garage, and small commemorative features scattered around a six acre site in the heart of Jefferson, South Dakota. Only the church and the rectory are counted as contributing resources.
Nearly 400 people took the Plunge on Feb. 12, 2011 as part of law enforcement's St. Peter Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics Minnesota. Photo by Michelle Lindstedt.
St Peter's at Clippesby is hidden away down a leafy lane and thus despite its close proximity to a busy main road is easily missed, you would never know it was there unless you specifically sought it out. It is a small but rather charming building consisting of an aisleless nave and chancel with a Norman round tower at the west end (its later upper storey octagonal).
The interior is given a more restored impression by the Victorian east window and reredos but it remains a place of antiquity nonetheless. There is a good late medieval brass in the nave floor and also a fine Arts & Crafts window by Margaret Rope on the south side.
The church is generally kept open and welcoming, for more see below:-
December 24, 2018 - The Franciscan order St. Peter's Church was built between 1888 - 1894 in the New Spanish Baroque architectural style, located in Old Jaffa.
The sanctuary entrance with coats of arms above the doors at St. Peter's Church, Huddersfield, England
St. Peter's Seminary is a disused Roman Catholic seminary near Cardross, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Designed by the firm of Gillespie, Kidd and Coia. It has been abandoned since the end of the 1980s, and is currently in a ruinous state. (Wikipedia)
St. Peter's Seminary is a disused Roman Catholic seminary near Cardross, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Designed by the firm of Gillespie, Kidd and Coia. It has been abandoned since the end of the 1980s, and is currently in a ruinous state. (Wikipedia)
Edensor, Derbyshire, St. Peter's church.
The memorial to Henry Cavendish (died 1616) and William Cavendish (died 1625), two sons of Sir William Cavendish (c. 1505–1557) and Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (c. 1527–1608), known as "Bess of Hardwick"
Detail: Figure of Mars, Cavendish memorial.
The best surviving feature of the earlier church is the superb memorial in the chapel erected by Bess of Hardwick to her 2 sons, Henry and William Cavendish. William (d. 1626) was the 1st Earl of Devonshire and is shown in a shroud with his face revealed. Henry, who died in 1616, is depicted as a skeleton on a soldier's straw mat.
The figures are flanked by military symbols and capped by a large broken pediment. To one side is a figure of Mars, God of War, to represent Henry, who was a soldier. On the other is Athena, Godess of Wisdom, bearing the head of Medusa, snakes still vigorously writhing. The monument is attributed to Maximilian Colt, who also designed the tomb of Bess's second husband, the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, in Westminster Abbey.
www.britainexpress.com/counties/derbyshire/churches/edens...
I came across Repps with its fine church, but as there was no dedication board outside I was unsure of which church it was. Made even more confused by a notice in the porch claiming that the dedication for Repps was Ss. peter and Paul. The two banners inside confirmed it was indeed Repps.
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At first sight, Repps is a large and rather ordinary village in the heart of the Norfolk Broads - but this is in itself an unusual thing, of course, and suggests that here is a village of ordinary Norfolk people leading ordinary Norfolk lives, which comes as something of a relief after to the tourist clamour of Wroxham and Hoveton. The church is set a little way out of the village, down towards the river, but is open every day, as they virtually all seem to be in the Broads (except for nearby Potter Heigham, where the eccentric churchwarden 'likes to know who's going into his church'). The parish has been a joint one with neighbouring Bastwick for centuries. The former Bastwick church tower still stands near the road to Ludham, proclaiming itself, somewhat surreally, a 'Cats Hotel'.
The flint tower of St Peter, with its13th Century bell stage crown, is a handsome one, and the red brick south porch offsets it nicely. Externally, this is still a pretty and rustic medieval church, but the interior is almost entirely the work of the 1890s. In fact, this is not a bad decade for church restorations; the heavy-handed enthusiasms of the previous few decades were now frowned upon, and the Church of England had not yet reached that mawkish apotheosis which the years immediately after the First World War would bring.
You step into a simple, lightly furnished space, with steps mounting into the chancel beyond the chancel arch. Turning back, the west end is plain and unadorned, a fitting setting for the font. It felt very loved and looked after. Best of all, I liked a pretty survival of the early 20th Century, the banner carried by the St Peter's Sunday School when processions were still a regular feature of the life of the Church of England.
Simon Knott, November 2008
St. Peter's Cathedral dates from the 12th century and is thought to stand on the site of a 6th century basilica. Much of the decorative interior was stripped during the protestant reformation.
By climbing to the North and South towers it is possible to get a 360 degree panoramic view of Geneva.
St Peter's church at Little Barrington is not a grand building but one of great charm and antiquity nonetheless, as witnessed to some striking Norman features, such as the elaborate south doorway in the porch (well preserved though with some restoration) and the easily missed tympanum on the north side (the remains of a blocked doorway in the corresponding position). Another curious feature of the exterior is the 18th century monument embedded in the east wall of the porch, unusual in both its setting and looking at least a century earlier.
Inside there is a single aisle in addition to the nave on the north side, the two separated by a fine late Norman/transitional arcade with two low and unusually wide arches, whilst about the walls are several painted texts from the 18th century.
St Peter Stiftskellers is Europe's oldest restaurant and has been trading since 803 AD - No, that is not a typo!
We had lunch here and thoroughly enjoyed the food, the decoration, and the history of the place.
St. Peter’s church Chillingham occupies the site of a 12th Century church, retaining some of its Norman stonework. The interior is an unusual mixture of old and new. As well as ancient stone work, 19th century boxed pews, the sanctuary was completely refurbished in 1967, and a millennium plaque recognises that Christian worship has been offered on this site for over a thousand years.
Perhaps most significant is the famous 15th century tomb of Sir Ralph Grey sited in the South Chapel. A detailed description of this tomb was published by the Society of Antiquities.
Church of very ancient origin, presumably between the seventh and tenth centuries.
It lies in San Pietro di Berbenno (Italy) at the edge of the statal road n. 38.
It's a monument of great historical and artistic value.
Part of our visit to Rome.
For more images and information on St Peter's, please read my blog posting below:
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