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- (from the article "pottery") ...taken over by potters who retained such names as The Three Golden Ash-Barrels, The Four Roman Heroes, and The Double Jug for their potteries. The craftworkers of the town were organized into the Guild of St. Luke, which exercised a ...
- Saint Margaret's Church
- church in the London borough of Westminster, since 1614 the official church of the House of Commons. It stands near Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament.
- Saint Mark's Tower
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...of intensive reflection, from which he emerged with fabulous drawings for the Doheny ranch in California (1921), a skyscraper for the National Life Insurance Company at Chicago (1920-25), and St. Mark's Tower, New York City (1929). The last was to ...
- Saint Martial
- (from the article "Latin literature") Notker's sequences are alive with dramatic possibility, and at St. Gall the practice of troping, or embellishing, liturgical texts also took dramatic form. The Quem quaeritis trope from St. Martial, an abbey at Limoges, was one of the earliest such ...
- Saint Martin
- island at the northern end of the Leeward group of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. The island is hilly and receives about 45 inches (1,140 mm) of rain annually. The southern third is tied historically and administratively with ... [3 Related Articles]
- Saint Martin
- (from the article "Gregory of Tours, Saint") ...in his religious devotion: initially Gregory was a follower of Julian, martyr of the Auvergne, whose capital was Clermont; after his appointment to Tours, he wholeheartedly promoted the cult of St. Martin, about whom he wrote four books of "miracle ...
- Saint Martin's Lent
- (from the article "church year") ...earliest reference to a season of Advent is the institution by Bishop Perpetuus of Tours (reigned 461-490) of a fast before Christmas, beginning from St. Martin's Day on November 11. Known as St. Martin's Lent, the custom was extended to ...
- Saint Martin-in-the-Fields
- (from the article "Gibbs, James") Gibbs's mature style represents a highly proficient synthesis of both Baroque and Palladian sources. His best-known work, St. Martin-in-the-Fields (designed 1720), with its lofty steeple and classical temple front, clearly demonstrates the intermingling of influences. Though criticized in its time-the ...
- Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, Academy of
- (from the article "Marriner, Sir Neville") Encouraged by Pierre Monteux, Marriner began to conduct, specializing in Baroque music. After 10 successful years spent organizing, building, and recording extensively with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, he went on to direct and conduct major symphony orchestras throughout the ...
- Saint Martinville
- city, seat (1811) of St. Martin parish, southern Louisiana, U.S. It lies on Bayou Teche, about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Lafayette. Originally known as Poste des Attakapas (for a local Indian tribe), it was settled about 1760. A ...
- Saint Mary's
- county, southern Maryland, U.S. It consists of a tidewater peninsula bordered by the Patuxent River to the northeast, Chesapeake Bay to the east, the Potomac River to the south, and the Wicomico River to the west. Landmarks include the Patuxent ...
- Saint Mary's Abbey
- (from the article "Western sculpture") ...of the Great Portal, with its carved tympanum, voussoirs, and side figures, was virtually ignored. The remains of a portal the style of which may be connected with Sens cathedral survive from St. Mary's Abbey, York, England (c. 1210). Rochester ...
- Saint Mary's Cathedral
- (from the article "Tange Kenzo") ...Gymnasiums; the two structures featured sweeping curved roofs and an asymmetrical but balanced design that masterfully assimilated traditional techniques. During the same period, Tange also designed St. Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo, a bold cruciform design with stark, soaring roofs made ...
- Saint Mary's College
- (from the article "Notre Dame, University of") ...included a men's college, an elementary school, a college-preparatory school, a vocational ("manual labour") school, and a novitiate. A sister school for women, St. Mary's Academy (later St. Mary's College), was opened in 1844. The university added science, law, and ...
- Saint Mary's Falls Canal
- (from the article "canals and inland waterways") ...the Welland Canal linking Lakes Ontario and Erie. Opened in 1829, it overcame the 327-foot difference in elevation with 40 locks, making navigation possible to Lake Michigan and Chicago. Later the St. Mary's Falls Canal connected Lake Huron and Lake ...
- Saint Mary, Cathedral of
- (from the article "Kilkenny") St. Canice's Cathedral, begun about 1192, occupies the site of a 6th-century church founded by St. Canice; the bishop's residence was built about 1360. The Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary (1843-57) is a cruciform building with a 200-foot (60-metre) ...
- Saint Mary, Cathedral of
- (from the article "Western architecture") The Gothic Revival survived into the 20th century, though largely for ecclesiastical architecture. Truro Cathedral, Cornwall, was built in 1880-1910 from designs by J.L. Pearson. After his death in 1897, it was completed by his son, Frank Loughborough Pearson, as ...
- Saint Mary, Church of
- (from the article "Asmara") ...Catholic cathedral (1922) and the Grand Mosque (1937). Other notable structures include the former palace (now a government residence), the legislative assembly and the municipal buildings, and St. Mary's (the main Ethiopian Orthodox church). Also the seat of Asmara University ...
- Saint Mary, Church of
- (from the article "Cotswold") ...of the Perpendicular Gothic architectural style of the 14th-16th centuries, reflect the district's former wealth; the 28 painted glass windows from the 15th-16th centuries in the parish church of St. Mary at Fairford, 8 miles (13 km) east of Cirencester, ...
- Saint Mary, Church of
- (from the article "Harrow") ...architecture in Harrow includes the 14th-century Headstone Manor, a half-timbered structure guarded by a moat; it was the residence of archbishops from the 14th to the 16th century. The medieval Church of St. Mary stands on Harrow Hill and is ...
- Saint Mary, Feast of
- (from the article "church year") ...a schedule of 33 Sundays per annum to be observed in numbered sequence in place of the Sundays previously designated "after Epiphany" and "after Pentecost." The ancient Roman Feast of St. Mary was restored to January 1; a new Feast ...
- Saint Marylebone
- neighbourhood of the City of Westminster, London. Formerly (until 1965) part of the metropolitan borough of St. Marylebone, it is located to the south and west of Regent's Park and north of Mayfair.
- Saint Marys City
- historic district and village, St. Mary's county, southern Maryland, U.S., on St. Marys River some 15 miles (25 km) southeast of Leonardtown, the county seat. Established in 1634 by colonists led by Leonard Calvert and named for the Virgin Mary, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Marys River
- outlet for Lake Superior, forming part of the boundary between Michigan, U.S., and Ontario, Can. Flowing east, then south, for 70 miles (110 km) into Lake Huron, it is an important link in the St. Lawrence Seaway. At Sault Ste. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Matthew Island
- (from the article "Alaska") The islands of the Bering Sea represent a small but unique Arctic maritime environment, typified by St. Lawrence, Nunivak, and St. Matthew islands and the Pribilof group. These tundra-covered islands are surrounded by sea ice in winter and serve as ...
- Saint Michael and Saint George, The Most Distinguished Order of
- British order of knighthood founded in 1818 by the Prince Regent, later King George IV, to commemorate the British protectorate over the Ionian islands (now in Greece) and Malta, which came under British rule in 1814.
- Saint Michael's Anglican Cathedral
- (from the article "Bridgetown") Today Bridgetown is a crowded and picturesque mixture of old and new. St. Michael's Anglican Cathedral was built of coral rock, largely from the proceeds of a lottery to replace a building destroyed in a hurricane of 1780. The General's ...
- Saint Michael's Mount
- granite island about 400 yards (365 metres) offshore in Mount's Bay on the English Channel, in the western part of the county of Cornwall, England. At low tide only, a natural causeway links the island to the nearby community of ...
- Saint Michael, Cathedral of
- (from the article "Spence, Sir Basil") ...and worked in Sir Edwin Lutyens' office on drawings for the Viceroy's House in New Delhi. Before the war he built large country houses, and in 1951 he won the competition for the new Coventry cathedral (completed in 1962). This ...
- Saint Michael, Church of
- (from the article "Ottonian art") ...(projections at each end of the nave) were elaborated with double transepts. Ottonian architecture was more regulated than Carolingian, with simple interior spaces and a more systematic layout. St. Michael's (founded c. 1001), Hildesheim, exemplifies this regularity, with two crypts, ...
- Saint Michael, Church of
- (from the article "Haworth") ...town of Keighley. In 1820 the Reverend Patrick Bronte brought his wife and six children-including Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, later of international literary fame-to Haworth. The Church of St. Michael contains their family memorials, and the adjacent parsonage (1779) has ...
- Saint Monday
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...hours of labour diminished and became more regular. Before then, work and nonwork activities had been closely related to each other-for example, in the popular observance of the weekly "Saint Monday," when furious bouts of working were followed by equally ...
- Saint Moritz
- town, or Gemeinde (commune), Graubunden canton, southeastern Switzerland. Saint Moritz lies in the Oberengadin (Upper Inn Valley) and is surrounded by magnificent Alpine peaks. The town consists of the Dorf (village), the Bad (spa), and the hamlets ... [3 Related Articles]
- Saint Moritz Olympics
- (from the article "Olympic Games") The second Winter Olympics, held at a ski resort, were marred by bad weather. The culprit was the foehn, a strong wind that carried with it warm air, causing temperatures to soar above 75 °F (24 °C) some afternoons. Numerous ...
- Saint Moritz Olympics
- (from the article "Olympic Games") After an absence of 12 years as a result of World War II, Olympic competition returned. The Games, however, felt the effects of the war as countries were unable to properly equip their teams, forcing athletes to improvise. A shortage ...
- Saint Nicholas Cathedral
- (from the article "spire") In Germany the timber spires of the Romanesque era evolved into Gothic stone spires of great refinement. At Fribourg (Switz.) cathedral (spire, 1270-88), a low, square tower with corner pinnacles carries a gabled, octagonal lantern that supports the spire of ...
- Saint Nicholas Day
- feast day (December 6) of St. Nicholas, patron saint of Russia and Greece, of a number of cities, and of sailors and children, among many other groups. Little is known of the life of the historical Nicholas. He was the ...
- Saint Nicholas, Cathedral of
- (from the article "Stockholm") ...well-preserved city nucleus, with the original network of streets and many of its buildings dating from the Middle Ages, is legally protected from change. Stads Island contains the Royal Palace; Storkyrkan, also called the Cathedral, or Church, of St. Nicolas; ...
- Saint Nicodemus and Saint Joseph, Hospice of
- (from the article "Ramla") Interesting sites in the city, aside from the White Tower, are the Franciscan Hospice of St. Nicodemus and St. Joseph; the Great Mosque (Al-Jami' al-Kabir), built on the foundations of the 12th-century crusader cathedral of St. John; and the Pool ...
- Saint Olaf College
- private coeducational institution of higher learning in Northfield, southeastern Minnesota, U.S. It is a liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Named for Olaf II, the patron saint of Norway, St. Olaf's School was founded by ...
- Saint Pancras Station
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...trussed arches sprang from small points across a huge space, 385 feet (117 metres) long and 150 feet (45 metres) high. Similar spaces had already been created in railway stations in England such as St. Pancras, London (1864-68, by William ...
- Saint Patrick's Cathedral
- (from the article "Dublin") ...was replaced about 140 years later by a more magnificent Norman structure. By the 19th century the edifice was in ramshackle condition; it was restored in the 1870s at enormous cost. Its neighbour, St. Patrick's, erected just outside the city ...
- Saint Patrick's Cathedral
- (from the article "Renwick, James, (Jr.)") ...prominent structure, which was one of the first American designs to show a true understanding of the Gothic style, led to many more ecclesiastical commissions for Renwick, culminating with that for St. Patrick's Cathedral (begun 1858) in New York City, ...
- Saint Patrick's Church
- (from the article "Newry") ...was planted by St. Patrick. Because of its position in a gap of the hills, Newry was often attacked from the 13th to the 17th century; it was burned by the English king James II's forces in 1689. St. Patrick's ...
- Saint Patrick's Day
- feast day (March 17) of St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Born in Roman Britain in the late 4th century, he was kidnapped at the age of 16 and taken to Ireland as a slave. He escaped but returned about ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Patroclus, cathedral of
- (from the article "Soest") ...economically. Although the city was heavily damaged in World War II, many timbered houses, old buildings, and much of the old town walls survived, including the Osthofentor (gatehouse; 1526). The cathedral of St. Patroclus (founded c. 955; extended 1166) adjoins ...
- Saint Paul
- city, capital of Minnesota, U.S., and seat of Ramsey county. Situated in the southeastern part of the state, St. Paul is at the head of navigation on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Minnesota River. The city adjoins ... [3 Related Articles]
- Saint Paul monastery
- (from the article "Benedict Biscop, Saint") founder and first abbot of the celebrated twin monasteries of SS. Peter (at Wearmouth) and Paul (at Jarrow on Tyne, nearby); he is considered to be the father of Benedictine monasticism in England.
- Saint Paul River
- river rising in southeastern Guinea, western Africa. Its source is in the mountains east of Macenta, and its upper reach (the Diani, or Nianda, River) forms part of the border between Guinea and Liberia. It was first sighted by Portuguese ...
- Saint Paul's
- (from the article "Mdina") ...Vecchia ("Old City"). Mdina retains intact its remarkable fortifications with a complete wall and contains many 15th-, 16th-, and 17th-century Maltese palaces. Its chief building is St. Paul's, the cathedral church of Malta (restored after an earthquake in 1693), said ...
- Saint Paul's Cathedral
- in London, cathedral of the Anglican bishop. It is located within the central City of London, atop Ludgate Hill and northeast of Blackfriars. [8 Related Articles]
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