Palladio's facade became a design prototype for classical churches with a high nave, or central aisle, and lower aisles.
In the roughly two centuries since this massive neo-Classical church was converted into a secular mausoleum, fewer than 80 people have been admitted into its gravestone club.
Schloss Halbturn stands poised between two worlds: at the top of the vineyard by the gates you look west and see the faint blue line of the Alps; in the park below the house is a delightful neo-Classical church that would be at home in Tolstoy's "War and Peace".
It was given this status on 25 October 1951, and has been listed because it is "a substantially Neo-classical church retaining much of its original architectural character".
It is a Grade II listed building, a designation given to "particularly important buildings of more than special interest", because it is a "substantially Neo-classical church retaining much of its original architectural character".
For decades, the main radio station in the country, run by the government, played classical and church songs after public figures died.
Your choices may touch on the huge canon of classical and church music, from Henry Purcell, to Anton Bruckner, JS Bach to Camille Saint-Saëns or Samuel Wesley, dominant forces in European culture for centuries.
There was little precedent for the classical Protestant church or its spire; no plan is repeated; no spire echoes another; the type became the model for ecclesiastical design for more than 200 years.
A restored classical Georgian church and a former temperance hall are among projects to benefit from £3.2m funding for two Pembrokeshire towns.
Unlike several other notable prog rock keyboardists, such as Rick Wakeman or Keith Emerson, Banton considers himself primarily an organist, due to his background in classical and church music, and only ever used that instrument on stage, albeit heavily modified with customised electronics and devices.
The early 19th-century neo-classical English Church (21) on Rua do Quebra Costas was designed by the British Consul to look secular, in deference to Catholic Portuguese law.
