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Há 2 dias · Just as Britannia saw the early training of the naval commanders in the first World War, so John Fisher’s new college was responsible for a large proportion of the senior officers who fought the Second War, with a devotion to duty and a seamanlike skill at least equal to that of their predecessors.
Há 5 dias · The Nelson Pediment is a Coade stone memorial set in a triangular architrave in the King William Courtyard of the Old Royal Naval College. The Immortality of Nelson tympanum designed by artist Benjamin West, who also produced the famous painting of the same name, was commissioned by Greenwich Hospital.
Há 4 dias · More than just a building, the chapel embodies the indomitable human spirit and our endless reach for the divine. Fit for a King: The Chapel‘s Royal Foundations. The story of King‘s College Chapel began in 1441, when the 19-year-old King Henry VI founded King‘s College with the intention of building a magnificent chapel for it.
Há 3 dias · SE10 9JF London (Greenwich) United Kingdom. Denomination: Anglican. Congregation: Chapel of St Peter and St Paul, Old Royal Naval College (Diocese of Southwark, Archdeaconry of Lewisham and Greenwich, Charlton Deanery) Geogr. Coordinates: 51.48326° N, 0.00509° W.
Há 3 dias · In 1939 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. During the visit, the Queen and Lord Louis Mountbatten asked his nephew Philip to escort the royal couple's daughters, 13-year-old Elizabeth and 9-year-old Margaret , who were Philip's third cousins through Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and second cousins once removed through King Christian IX of ...
Há 3 dias · Others, such as the Talbots of Shrewsbury who held the manor of Sheffield, opted to use the parish church as their chapel. Sheffield remains an unique example where the 16th-century chapel within the church – now a cathedral – remained consecrated for Catholic worship long after the Reformation and was only ceded, ‘for the use of parishioners’, in 1933 for Anglican usage.
Há 4 dias · It has in England only one rival in the richness of its decoration, namely, King's College Chapel, at Cambridge. The roofs of both are among the glories of the later Gothic style. The cost of Henry VII.'s chapel was £14,000: a large sum at that day.
