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With its enormous and imposing central tower, Tewkesbury Abbey is a Norman church built on a cathedral scale. The sheer size of the building is further emphasised by the west end, which is entirely made up of a huge arch that rises to the full height of the nave. The look and feel of grandeur is continued inside, where giant pillars soar up to the roof.

The Basilica of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte was built between 1653 and 1662 but a church already existed on the site in the 11th century. The Baroque reconstruction of the 17th century is the work of Francesco Borromini, but the façade dates back to 1862. The church is the place where the famous conversion of Alphonse Ratisbonne (1814-1848) took place.

This cathedral was built on the site of a former mosque after King Jamie I's conquest of Murcia from the Muslim rulers of the area in the 14th century. The interior of the cathedral is gothic, while the exterior is baroque. Its most prominent feature is its 95 meter tall tower that took several architects over 200 years to build.

The cathedral of Saints Archangels Michael and Gabriel is the old church of the Jesuit fathers. The church dates from the 19th century (1874) and was given to the Greek Orthodox worship.

The original cathedral in Alessandria was created upon the pope's establishment of a diocese here in 1175. The cathedral was then expanded in the 13th century and lasted until 1803, when Napoleon's troops demolished it for tactical reasons. It was then rebuilt between 1807 and 1810 in its modern neoclassical form.

Outstandingly rich, colourful and layered with history, the chapel's vaulted ceiling was installed by Henry VIII in the 1530s and is the grand culmination of Tudor opulence at Hampton Court. Queen Anne refurbished the interior of the chapel in the early 1700s.

Built largely between 1531 and 1536 by Henry VIII, much of the original red brick building erected by Henry VIII still survives today, including the Chapel Royal, the gatehouse, some turrets and two surviving Tudor rooms in the State apartments.

Split Monastery of St. Frane na Obala belongs to a number of monasteries which the older tradition holds were founded in 1212 by the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, St. Francis of Assisi, during his stay in Dalmatia, and these are, in addition to Split, other monasteries in Zadar, Pasman, Trogir, Dubrovnik, and some other places.

The Church of All Saints Glorified is a Bulgarian chapel built in 1882 to commemorate the victory of the Russian Empire against the Ottoman Empire in 1877-1878 and to honour the memory of the Bulgarian volunteers who took part in it.

The Church of Our Lady, built on the former cathedral of Aarhus in the 13th century, was formerly the southern wing of a former Dominican monastery. The crypt, built around 1060 with the old cathedral, is the oldest preserved in the Nordic countries.