Nikosia can boast a very unusual number of churches and mosques, and we are told that, when the city was at the height of its glory, there were no less than two hundred and fifty chapels and churches.
At the time of my visit the floors of the chapels were thickly strewn with branches of myrtle in celebration of the feast of Easter.
We remarked several small chapels and crosses where promises of indulgence for thirty days are held out to those persons who shall repeat there a certain number of prayers.
In scores of places the hamlet has become of more importance than the old village, and has grown into a little town, where new churches and chapels and public buildings have sprung up.
In other cases daughter churches, or =chapels of ease=, were built in the newer manors, and provision was made for the support of a priest to minister to them.
Many new chapels were built for this special purpose.
Under all these churches and chapels were =vaults=, in which people were buried, but not in the earth.
In the course of years these private chapels were built as huge churches, much larger than the parish church.
About 1840 a liking for Gothic architecture revived, and the churches and chapels since then have been built mostly in one or other of the Gothic styles.
She possessed in the suburbs her chapels and grottoes, hollowed out in the hillsides, where she was served by the usual crowd of Ephébæ and sacred courtesans.
By the end of the thirteenth century the chapels round the apse and in the nave, the Porte Rouge and the south portal were added, and the great temple was at length completed.
In this and in many of the numerous chapels are other decorative paintings by modern artists, few of which will probably appeal to the visitor.
Until comparatively recent times the church of St. Marine was used as a joiner's workshop, and one of the chapels of Ste.
As we pace round the ambulatory we are shown some remains of twelfth-century stained glass in the choir chapels (that in the Lady Chapel including the figure of Abbot Suger,) and a modern representation of the Oriflamme to the L.
It was often said that a single ward election did more harm than all the sermons in all the churches and chapels did good.
The nave and aisles, with the two chapels at the east end, were new leaded in 1537.
He also fitted up the choir and the chapels around it, and covered the arched stone work with lead.
Its transepts were formerly chapels dedicated to St. John the Baptist and the Virgin Mary.
It is in union with the Incorporated Society for promoting the enlargement, building, and repairing of churches and chapels in England and Wales.
The two principal chapels are of early English architecture with porches and apsidal terminations.
It has a nave, chancel, south porch with parvise, and two aisles with chapels at their east ends.
Within two centuries, in place of one, several chapels arose; and throughout all England, few towns exhibited a greater increase of Nonconformists than Norwich.
Blomefield gives an account of different chapels dedicated to various purposes, most of which were destroyed at the Dissolution.
The soldier had meantime returned with an old woman, both loaded with bedding, which she signed to them to arrange in one of the little bays or niches that served to form a crown of lesser chapels around the chancel.
There is also a seventeenth-century baroque imitation of these Romanesque chapels under the riverside slope of the Letna Hill, which is not worth troubling about.
This period also has left three quaint little Romanesque chapels in various parts of Prague.
I looked up and saw it was from the belfry of one of those new chapels which the monks are building everywhere, nor did I forget to curse the monks in my heart for building them.
Gentlemen of the Chapels Royal; children of the Chapels.
In Catholic times the streets were adorned not only by many fine crosses, such as those at Charing and Cheapside, but also by numerous chapels and wayside shrines.
Its nave has been destroyed, but the transept and the choir, with its radiating chapels (c.
Already, in 1220, the choir had been redone and two more chapels added, making five apsidioles in all.
The exterior of Angers Cathedral was made equally simple, without radiating apse chapels or flying buttresses.
In the outer aisle of his ambulatory, Suger introduced a fifth rib in each vault section, which welded the apse chapels with the procession path.
Some of Duke Jean's friends presented early XV-century windows to the side chapels of Bourges Cathedral.
Both followed the Cistercian plan; no tower; no triforium nor clearstory; uncut capitals; the east end rectangular; square chapels opening on the eastern wall of the transept.
Its three apse chapels open on the ambulatory, by columns and stilted arches, perhaps the first time this disposition of Champagne Gothic was used.
Before long that curving processional path, with radiating apsidal chapels opening from it, was taken to represent the crown of thorns about the Sacred Head.
As the XIII century merged in the XIV Pierre de Chelles, probably a son of Jean, directed the making of the apse chapels and the superb flying buttresses which leap unhesitatingly over chapels and aisle and tribune gallery.
Only vestiges have survived; in some of the choir chapels are patchwork panels of ancient fragments.
Two of the radial chapels which he constructed at Fécamp have survived.
In the cathedral chapels are some XV-and XVI-century lights, and fragments of earlier glass.
He changed the southern aisle, giving it a coldly elegant Rayonnant aspect, but happily not that to the north, or we would have lost the two interesting Romanesque chapels of Abbot Guillaume de Ros.
Its vista is closed imposingly; the imaged windows of its high apsidal chapels appear symmetrically behind the arches that surround the sanctuary.
Francesco del Monte he painted two chapels in fresco, one with the story of the Magi going to make offering to Christ, and the other with the martyrdom of certain friars of S.
Pietro, in the chapel that contains the Lance which pierced the side of Christ, he painted a panel in distemper, with the Madonna larger than life, for the said Innocent VIII; and he painted two chapels in the Church of S.
In England, chapels in the universities are places of worship belonging to particular colleges.
The chapels connected with the colleges in the United States are used for the same purpose.
So he ordered three chapels to be illuminated, and a special prayer to be chanted for the conversion of Bullockshatch; at the mention of which name, it is recorded that some images winked their eyes!
At this period of our story all the Catholic chapels and places of worship were, as we have said, closed by proclamation, and the poor people were deprived of the means of meeting to worship God.
A general disarming of all Catholics took place; domiciliary visits were made in quest of bishops, priests, and friars, and all the chapels in the country were shut up.
The chapels are all closed, and public worship forbidden by law.
It is forty-seven feet wide in the clear, without aisles, has chapels between the buttresses, and is lighted by large clerestory-windows.
The nave of four bays, with its aisles and chapels on either side of them, is all that is completed; and, large as it is, the parts are all so colossal that there is not the impression of size that there ought to be.
An aisle of the same width as that of the nave is continued round the choir, and has the rare arrangement of two polygonal chapels opening in each of its bays.
The plan[374] of the cathedral consists of a nave and aisles of four bays in length, with chapels between the buttresses.
It has been already said that the Coro occupies the usual place in the nave; and it is clear that it has never been moved, as there are small groined chapelsformed between the columns on either side of it.
The triangular bays and square chapels have stone roofs sloping down to a gutter between them; whilst the bay between them had a square roof sloping slightly all ways, and over the outer chapel a roof sloping back to the same gutter.
Assuming as I do that the external wall of the apse is as old as the end of the eleventh century, I think it nevertheless quite impossible that the chapels within it, in their present state, should be of the same early date.
Small chapels are formed between the buttresses, and these are also lighted with small windows.
The church of San Juan is now desecrated; it is cruciform in plan, with a deep apsidal chancel, and seems to have had chapels on the east side of the transepts.
The chapels to the east of the transept are roofed with semi-domes.
Between these chapels and the transepts there would then have been two bays of aisle without side chapels, and on the eastern side of each of the transepts a small square chapel, one of which still remains.
Among works whitewashed over by posterity were the frescoes with which he covered no less than five chapels in the church of Santa Croce.
The inside is richer; the wooden ceiling is painted, the shallow chancel and the side chapels vaulted with barrel vaults, of which those in the chapels are enriched with elaborate strapwork.
As usual the nave and aisles have a wooden roof, only the chancel and chapelsbeing vaulted.
All the chapels have good vaulting and simple two-light windows, and capitals well carved with naturalistic foliage.
The chancel, where the tomb first stood, is rather long and has as usual a square east end while the two flanking chapels are apsidal.
Like the others, the plan shows a nave and rather narrow aisles of five bays, and two square vaulted chapels with an apsidal chancel between to the east.
This vault and the cornice were probably not finished till well on in the seventeenth century, for on the lower, and probably earlier vaults, of the side chapels the ornamentation is much finer and more delicate.
A little above the entrance arches to the chapels the octagon is surrounded by two carved string courses separated by a broad plain frieze.
Outside, the smaller eastern chapels have an elaborate cresting, and tall twisted pinnacles.
It happened that a religious was going to visit the chapels of that district where he lived.
Aspar said, moreover, that some martyrs lay in the chapels within, and that various confessors had ended their days there.
Then rose the fair chapelsof New College and of Saint George, the nave of Winchester and the choir of York, the spire of Salisbury and the majestic towers of Lincoln.
There are fourchapels on the right, and only two on the left side of the nave; between these two are the sacristies.
There are also beautiful frescoes by Simone Martini, or Simone Memmi, as this Sienese painter is often called, between the entrances to the chapels of the Sacrament and that of St. Mary Magdalene.
To every pair of chapels there was a tower six stories high, approachable by a winding stair on the outside.
Around it were seventy-two chapelsof an octagonal shape.
The Side Chapels I WOULD next draw the attention of my readers to two of the side chapels.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chapels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
