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Church Of Saint Pancras (other)
Church of Saint Pancras may refer to: Italy * San Pancrazio, a basilica in Rome * San Pancrazio (Florence), a deconsecrated church * San Pancrazio (Genoa) * San Pancrazio, Sestino United Kingdom * St Pancras Old Church, a 4th-century church in St Pancras, London * St Pancras New Church, a 19th-century church built nearby when the above fell into disrepair * St Pancras, Soper Lane, in the City of London, destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 * St Pancras Church, Exeter, in Devon * St Pancras Church, Ipswich, in Suffolk * St Pancras Church, Kingston near Lewes, in East Sussex * Church of Saint Pancras, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, in Devon * Church of St. Agnes and St. Pancras, Toxteth Park, in Liverpool, Lancashire * Lewes Priory, in Sussex Uruguay * Inmaculado Corazón de María (San Pancracio), Montevideo The Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ( es, Iglesia del Inmaculado Corazón de María), popularly known as San Pancracio (Spanish for "Saint Pancras") is a Roman Catholic par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Pancrazio
The basilica of San Pancrazio ( en, St Pancras; la, S. Pancratii) is a Roman Catholic ancient basilica and titular church founded by Pope Symmachus in the 6th century in Rome, Italy. It stands in via S. Pancrazio, westward beyond the Porta San Pancrazio that opens in a stretch of the Aurelian Wall on the Janiculum. It covers the Catacomb of San Pancrazio. The Cardinal Priest of the ''Titulus S. Pancratii'' is Antonio Cañizares Llovera. Other previous titulars include Pope Paul IV (15 January – 24 September 1537) and Pope Clement VIII (18 December 1585 – 30 January 1592). History The basilica was built by Pope Symmachus (498–514), on the place where the body of the young martyr Saint Pancras of Rome, or Pancratius, had been buried, ''Via Aurelia miliario secundo'' ('on the Via Aurelia at the second milestone'). The church was originally placed by him under the care of the clergy of the Church of S. Crisogono. Due to their neglect of the site, Pope Gregory I (590� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Pancrazio (Florence)
San Pancrazio is a church in Florence, Italy, in Piazza San Pancrazio, behind Palazzo Rucellai. With the exception of the Rucellai Chapel, it is deconsecrated and is home to the museum dedicated to the sculptor Marino Marini. The Rucellai Chapel contains the Rucellai Sepulchre or Tempietto del Santo Sepolcro. Since February 2013 it has been possible to visit the chapel from within the Marini museum. Early history The church was built in the early Christian age, and is documented from 931; according to the historian Giovanni Villani, it was founded by Charlemagne. The adjoining Vallombrosian monastery was established in 1157. It was suppressed in 1808. The church was restored and enlarged from the 14th century. The cloister houses a fresco by Neri di Bicci. The Rucellai Chapel Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai commissioned Leon Battista Alberti to build him a tomb in the family chapel in the church. Giorgio Vasari wrote of it in 1568: Alberti's work on the Rucellai Chapel and on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Pancrazio (Genoa)
The church of San Pancrazio is found in central Genoa, in front of the piazza named after the same saint. A church at the site was first linked to the nearby Benedictine Abbey of San Siro in the 11th century. A document from the 16th century notes that the church had been for centuries endowed by prominent Genoese families including the Calvi and Pallavicini.Pareto et al. page 116 The present layout dates into the 18th century. In 1684, the church was demolished by the bombardment of Genoa by the naval forces of Louis XIV of France. The architect Antonio Maria Ricca designed the present structure. The church was again damaged by aerial bombing during the Second World War. It is now attached to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta as evidenced by the cross above the portal. The apse frescoes were completed by Giacomo Antonio Boni, while the triptych of the ''Life of St. Pancras'', attributed to Adriaen Isenbrandt Adriaen Isenbrandt or Adriaen Ysenbrandt (between 1480 and 14 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Pancrazio, Sestino
San Pancrazio ("St. Pancras") is a 9th- or 10th-century church and former pieve in Sestino, Tuscany dedicated to St. Pancras of Rome. It is built over a Roman ''Curia Augusta'' or ancient Roman court building. Of the original medieval edifice the crypt survives, with walls decorated by blind arches and columns and medieval sculptures. The Romanesque apse is from the 12th century, while the façade was remade in the late 17th century and the two aisles were suppressed in 1784. Notable is also the sandstone altar (1259) supported by a Roman cippus A (plural: ''cippi''; "pointed pole") is a low, round or rectangular pedestal set up by the Ancient Romans for purposes such as a milestone or a boundary post. They were also used for somewhat differing purposes by the Etruscans and Carthaginians ... (374). References {{coord missing, Italy Churches in the province of Arezzo Pancrazio Pancrazio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Pancras Old Church
St Pancras Old Church is a Church of England parish church in Somers Town, Central London. It is dedicated to the Roman martyr Saint Pancras, and is believed by many to be one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in England. The church is situated on Pancras Road in the London Borough of Camden, with the surrounding area and its international railway station taking its name. St Pancras Old Church, which was largely rebuilt in the Victorian era, should not be confused with St Pancras New Church (1819–1822) about away, on Euston Road. History Parish Originally, the parish of St Pancras stretched from close to Oxford Street almost to Highgate. In the early Middle Ages there was a centre of population in the vicinity of what is now known as the old church. However, in the 14th century the population abandoned the site and moved to what is now Kentish Town. The reasons for this were probably the vulnerability of the plain around the church to flooding (the River Flee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Pancras New Church
St Pancras Church is a Greek Revival church in St Pancras, London, built in 1819–22 to the designs of William Inwood, William and Henry William Inwood. Location The church is on the northern boundary of Bloomsbury, on the south side of Euston Road, at the corner of Upper Woburn Place, in the borough of London Borough of Camden, Camden. When it was built its west front faced into the south-east corner of Euston Square, which had been laid out on either side of what was then simply known as the "New Road". It was intended as a new principal church for the parish of St Pancras, London, St Pancras, which once stretched almost from Oxford Street to Highgate. The St Pancras Old Church, original parish church was small ancient building to the north of New Road. This had become neglected following a shift in population to the north, and by the early 19th century services were only held there once a month, worship at other times taking place in a chapel in Kentish Town. With the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Pancras, Soper Lane
St Pancras, Soper Lane, was a parish church in the City of London, in England. Of medieval origin, it was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not rebuilt. History St Pancras, Soper Lane, was in the Ward of Cheap, City of London.'Cheape warde' A Survey of London, by John Stow: Reprinted from the text of 1603 (1908), pp. 258-276. The street from which it took its name was renamed after the Great Fire, although sources vary as to whether it became Queen Street or Pancras Lane. The church was first built in the twelfth century. It was a small building, with a tower containing five bells. There was a chapel on the north side. Though small, the parish had some wealthy residents, and the church received various benefactions. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Pancras Church, Exeter
St Pancras Church is a small church situated in the middle of the Guildhall Shopping Centre in Exeter. The majority of the church dates from the thirteenth century, although the font is eleventh century. The church probably occupies the oldest Christian site in Exeter, and is usually open on weekdays. The church is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building. History It is not known when St Pancras' Church was constructed though the dedication to Saint Pancras indicated that it may have been of Anglo-Saxon origin. Records cited a Saxon-style archway in the construction which was later removed during renovations. The church was first mentioned in 1191 but most of the building work dates to the 13th century. The church underwent several periods of use and disuse between 1658 and 1831. In 1831, the chancel arch was destroyed and replaced with a plain one which stood until John Loughborough Pearson renovated the church to rebuild the original arch. Pews we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Pancras Church, Ipswich
Saint Pancras is an active Roman Catholic parish church serving the town centre of Ipswich, England. The neo-gothic church was built as part of the British Catholic revival in the nineteenth century, and was the target of anti-Catholic riots soon after completion. Building and dedication of the church The construction of St Pancras was largely financed from the estate of L'Abbé Louis Simon. Abbé Simon was a French émigré priest who came to Ipswich in 1793, during the French Revolution, and became the first Catholic priest to celebrate Mass regularly in Ipswich since the Reformation. Simon was from an aristocratic family in Normandy and sold property he inherited in Normandy to fund church building in his adopted home of Ipswich. The church was built by George Goldie, a prominent Catholic architect.St Pancras, Ipswich [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Pancras Church, Kingston Near Lewes
St Pancras Church is the parish church of Kingston near Lewes in East Sussex, England. The church building was built in the 13th century and is protected as a Grade II* listed building. Overview The church building was built in the 13th century. It is made of stone and flint rubble. It comprises a nave, chancel, western tower, and south porch. The building was damaged by lightning in 1865, and again in 1874. It was designated Grade II* listed on 20 August 1965. Inside the church, the communion table is Elizabethan and the chest at the west end of the nave is Jacobean. There are three ancient bells in the tower, one of them made by Walter Wimbis. There are also a chalice and paten dating back to 1568; a chalice, paten, and flagon of silver, to 1872–1874; and a silver alms-dish, to circa 1700. The church also contains a memorial window to anti-apartheid activist and clergyman Michael Scott. The parish is part of the United Benefice of Iford, Rodmell and Southease. The regist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of Saint Pancras, Widecombe-in-the-Moor
The Church of Saint Pancras is a Church of England church in Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Devon, England. It is also known as the Cathedral of the Moor. It has received the nickname "Cathedral of the Moor" because of its 120-foot tower and relatively large capacity for such a small village. The church was originally built in the fourteenth century, in the Perpendicular Period, Perpendicular (late Gothic architecture, Gothic) style, using locally quarried granite. It was enlarged over the following two centuries, partly on the proceeds of the local Dartmoor tin-mining, tin-mining trade. Inside, the ceiling is decorated with a large number of decorative Boss (architecture), roof bosses, including the tinner's emblem of a circle of three hares (known locally as the Tinners' Rabbits). The church was badly damaged in the The Great Thunderstorm, Widecombe, Great Thunderstorm of 1638, apparently struck by ball lightning. An afternoon service was taking place at the time, and the building was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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