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...The chapel proffers a medieval arcade with historic portraits of the Neville family, as well as 16th-century stained-glass windows, while the Octagon Drawing Room is an opulent gilt and ruby-red damask affair...
...White anemones would also flower in Filippo Lippi’s Adoration, painted later for the Medici palace’s chapel....
...Eventually, we have found that they crawl post-coitally to the stone threshold of a nearby room in which our chapel choirboys rehearse. Do they want to expire to the sound of music?...
...In Oxford we never prune ours, even after 30 years, except to reduce their height in late summer after flowering and stop them clinging on to the stained glass windows of the College chapel’s wall behind...
...In the early 1950s, a Magnolia soulangeana was planted in a very narrow flowerbed beneath the wall of my Oxford college chapel, presumably in the expectation that it would be trained against the wall....
...Inside, red-robed dancers twirled to the beat of hand drums before thousands of packed spectators, entranced by the music and the rhythms, boys and men in the front, girls and women in the side chapels....
...“I’m not in Iowa at the state fair,” he told Fox News earlier this month. “I’m campaigning in Virginia for Virginians, not around the country.”...
...The blue light of a half moon illuminated the karakat tracks, and pawprints of a fox who trotted off in search of discarded fish....
...The funeral of Queen Victoria St George’s Chapel, Windsor, February 1901 Queen Victoria wrote detailed plans for her own funeral....
...About five years ago, our college undergraduates put on a medieval morality play in the college chapel and needed a tree of good and a tree of evil at short notice....
...The monks are acted by Grahame Fox and Simon Victor, filmed with multiple cameras to allow you to walk around them as they move and talk....
...Oxford’s eminent college chaplains, in which he posed a rhetorical question from the pulpit to the new age of unchristian flower power, members of whom were dozing as the evening light filtered through the chapel...
...Near the end of the drought in May and early June I encountered a cluster of undergraduates, just released from evensong in the college chapel....
...“Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home,” wrote Laura Ingraham, the Fox News television host — one of several appeals from Trump’s allies in the conservative media....
...Here we have the old city wall of Oxford and our chapel. But in front of it our new sympathetic evolution - an unusual hybrid between a Japanese witch hazel and a Chinese witch hazel....
...Where once there were private chapels, today there are meditation pavilions, yoga shala and temples devoted to silence and ceremony....
...Robin Lane Fox will speak at the FT Weekend Festival, September 7, at Kenwood House, London....
...Gary Hamrick, pastor of Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, Virginia, was among those sceptical in 2016. “He was an unknown . . . There [was] no history, no track record....
...At Eton College he had grown up with superb Gothic fan-vaulting in the ceiling of the chapel. He then attended Cambridge where late Gothic masterpieces were all around him....
...First and foremost it’s functional but it is also playful – the mole, forest hare, mallard and red fox morph into characterful ovenproof dishes....
...By contrast, major population centres with high levels of educational attainment — including the Washington DC metro area; San Jose, California; New York and Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina — are better...
...In their garden at Hanham Castle near Bristol he made a pastiche of a ruined monastery from discarded stone chapel windows and bits of a demolished church....
...The candles are lit in the little vaulted chapel where the saddlehorse rubs up against icons of the Virgin Mary....
...Robin Lane Fox will be speaking at the FT Weekend Festival, September 8, at Kenwood House, London....
...No doubt you loved that dress and maybe you loved the sermons but you have to have loved the flowers around the entrance to St George’s Chapel and its pillars indoors....
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