A handsome new marble altar in the Church of the Transfiguration, in Mett-street, of which the Rev. Thomas F. Lynch is Pastor, was consecrated yesterday morning. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

In front of the High Altar is one of the Abbey's treasures. This is a marble pavement dating from 1268 and the method of its decoration is known as Cosmati work, after the Italian family who developed ...

The altar is a three-tiered square platform built of white marble, its shape symbolizing ... all belong to the emperor," stood for the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire and earth) which ...