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Altar Wedge Tomb is a wedge-shaped
gallery grave and
national monument located outside the
village of Schull, in
County Cork, Ireland.
Altar Wedge Tomb...
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applies to two
different megalithic forms in English, the
first being an
altar tomb (frequently
called a "dolmen"), as
William Borlase first denoted in 1769...
- The
Tomb of the Wolf of
Badenoch (or
Tomb of
Alexander Stewart)
consists of a 15th-century
tomb effigy and
altar (or "chest")
tomb, both of
which are carved...
- 13th century, the
effigies were
raised on
tomb-style
chests (known as
tomb chests,
altar tombs or
table tombs)
decorated with foliage,
heraldry or architectural...
- the
Eucharist was
celebrated among the
tombs in the
Catacombs of Rome,
using the
sarcophagi of
martyrs as
altars on
which to celebrate.
Other historians...
- in a
south window of the chancel, in
memory of his father, and a
plain altar tomb with an
Elizabethan tablet commemorating his life and
death and that of...
- for the
first St. Peter's Basilica. The
altar of the
Basilica was
planned to be
located directly over the
tomb. The
matter was
complicated by the upper...
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north of
where the high
altar once stood, Sir
William Pickering, 1574. Amb****ador in the
reign of
Queen Elizabeth I.
Altar tomb with re****bent
figure surmounted...
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church enactments in the West
against wooden altars, but not in the East. The
earliest stone altars were the
tombs of martyrs, over
which M**** was sometimes...
- century, at his grave. An
altar tomb,
which dates from
either the 13th or 14th century, now
marks the site of the shrine. The
tomb has
special openings in...
