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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Roskilde Cathedral' has mentioned 'Chapel' in the following places:
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| Contents 1 History 1.1 Previous churches 1.2 Current cathedral 2 Description 2.1 Chapels 2.1.1 Chapel of the Magi (Christian I's chapel) 2.1.2 Christian IV's chapel 2.1.3 Frederick V's chapel 2.1.4 Christian IX's chapel 2.1.5 St Andrew's Chapel and St Bridget's Chapel 2.2 Frederick IX's burial site 3 Royal burials 3.1 Choir 3.2 Piers flanking the apse 3.3 Apse 3.4 Chapel of the Magi (Christian I's Chapel) 3.5 Frederick V's chapel 3.6 Christian IV's chapel 3.7 Christian IX's chapel 3.8 Frederick IX's burial site 3.9 Maria Feodorovna's burial site 4 Boys' choir 5 Organ 6 See also 7 References 7.1 Notes 7.2 Sources 8 External links | WIKI |
| Christian IX's Chapel (right) and Frederick IX's Burial Site (left). | WIKI |
| When Margrethe I died in 1412, she was buried in her family's chapel at Sorxc3xb8 Klosterkirke. | WIKI |
| [13] The reconstruction could also have been helped by the decision of Christian I to build a chapel at the cathedral. | WIKI |
| While the cathedral suffered financial hardship, having been forced to give away all its property (which at the time included one in every four farms on Zealand and 30 large estates), it was endowed with a variety of gifts from Christian IV: The altarpiece (between 1555 and 1623), a royal box ca 1600, the pulpit in 1610, his own burial chapel in 1614, the construction of the iconic twin spires in 1633 and finally a grand Renaissance sandstone entrance portal in 1635. | WIKI |
| In 1774, work on the third royal burial chapel, Frederick V's chapel, began with the removal of the pre-existing Chapel of Our Lady. | WIKI |
| Work on the fourth royal burial chapel began in 1915, and prior to its completion in 1924, Roskilde was once again made a diocese. | WIKI |
| Chapel of the Magi (Christian I's chapel)[edit] | WIKI |
| Against this background of events, the Christian I decided to build a grand chapel at the cathedral. | WIKI |
| [20] The instrument of foundation was signed on April 28, 1459, which not only ordered the construction of the chapel but also granted large tracts of land to the church. | WIKI |
| [21] In the spring of 1462, the king applied to Pope Pius II for indulgence for having constructed the chapel, which was finally granted upon his visit to Pope Sixtus IV in Rome in 1474. | WIKI |
| Built in Gothic style, in line with the rest of the cathedral, the chapel consists of two floors, the lower floor intended as a burial chapel for Christian I and the upper floor as Great Hall for the members of the king's newly created Fellowship of the Mother of God, the precursor to the modern-day Order of the Elephant. | WIKI |
| Frescos from c. 1460 decorate the chapel | WIKI |
| The burials of Christian I and Queen Dorothea are marked with a pair of simple stones, as the chapel itself was to be considered their sepulchral monument, while the sepulchral monuments of Christian III and Frederick II dominate the lower floor. | WIKI |
| When the monument arrived in Elsinore, two local stonemasons set to work completing the monument, and in the summer of 1580 it was finally placed in the chapel. | WIKI |
| Both monuments are empty, however, as the coffins have been buried below the floor of the chapel. | WIKI |
| [26] King John was also supposed to have been buried in the chapel, but in his later years, he and his wife enjoyed living in Nxc3xa6sbyhoved Castle near Odense so much, that he expressed a preference to be buried in the town's Franciscan cathedral. | WIKI |
| The chapel's vaults and walls are richly decorated with frescos, dating from the 1460s when the chapel was created by Christian I and his wife. | WIKI |
| The arms of the king and queen decorate the chapel's east wall. | WIKI |
| Christian IV's chapel[edit] | WIKI |
| Exterior of Christian IV's Chapel | WIKI |
| Construction of the chapel was ordered by Christian IV himself in 1613, after the death of his Queen Anne Cathrine the year before, and upon realising that space inside the cathedral was running out. | WIKI |
| Built in Dutch Renaissance style, work on exterior of the chapel was begun in 1614 by Lorenz van Steenwinckel and completed in 1641 by his brother, Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger. | WIKI |
| The wrought-iron lattice separating the chapel from the nave was forged by Caspar Fincke in 1619, and contains a quip by its creator: | WIKI |
| Interior of Christian IV's Chapel. | WIKI |
| The National Liberal minister felt that seeing the completion of Christian IV's chapel, which he regarded as a national relic, would strengthen the national sentiment in the developing conflict with Prussia. | WIKI |
| When Marstrand had finished his work, the five coffins in the chapel were placed in their current positions. | WIKI |
| Frederick V's chapel[edit] | WIKI |
| Interior of Frederick V's Chapel | WIKI |
| Consisting of two chapels in neoclassical style, the construction spanned 51 years (1774xe2x80x931825) and required the removal of a previous existing chapel, the Chapel of Our Lady. | WIKI |
| Construction of the chapel was started by C. F. Harsdorff in 1774, possibly using early sketches made during his travels to Rome 1762xe2x80x931764, but due to a lack of funding the work was suspended in 1779. | WIKI |
| The chapel consists of a vestibule with two adjoining rooms on the north and south sides, usually referred to as Christian VI's chapel, and a domed cruciform-shaped hall, Frederick V's chapel. | WIKI |
| When the chapel was inaugurated in September 1825, coffins that had been temporarily stored in Christian IV's chapel were moved to the new chapel, and as members of the royal family died, more were added. | WIKI |
| This led to the chapel, which had been designed for five marble sarcophagi,[35] holding upwards of 17 coffins in 1912. | WIKI |
| However, the addition of Christian IX's chapel, the removal of some coffins to the crypts, and a rearrangement of the coffins, led to the present situation where only 12 coffins and sarcophagi are present. | WIKI |
| The chapel shows a gradual trend in moving from grand marble sarcophagi to more simple, velvet-covered coffins, and in the case of Frederick VII, a wooden coffin. | WIKI |
| Christian IX's chapel[edit] | WIKI |
| Interior of Christian IX's Chapel | WIKI |
| When the Constitution of Denmark was revised in 1915, the Folketing decided to honour the Royal Family, granting King Christian X's wish, by constructing a new chapel at the cathedral, dedicated to the House of Glxc3xbccksburg which had held the throne since Christian IX became king in 1863. | WIKI |
| The chapel was designed by then cathedral architect, Andreas Clemmensen. | WIKI |
| Construction of the chapel, overseen by a master builder Schledermann, began in 1919 and was completed in 1924, built in a Byzantine Revival style, with a Roman inspiration. | WIKI |
| Built as an extension of the northwestern weaponporch, which then ceased to exist as an independent building, the chapel is cruciform with grey walls and a domed roof. | WIKI |
| [37] Upon its completion, there was a heavy debate in the Danish newspapers, with some believing that the chapel was completely removed from the prevailing style of the cathedral. | WIKI |
| Designed by Hack Kampmann, the sarcophagus was originally to have stood in the eastern arm of Frederick V's chapel. | WIKI |
| Edvard Eriksen had created the statue of the Little Mermaid in 1911, two years before he created the statues in the chapel, and his wife Eline Eriksen was model for both. | WIKI |
| Following the death of Maria Feodorovna in 1928, and following a short ceremony in the Alexander Nevsky Church in Copenhagen and a Russian Orthodox ceremony in Roskilde, the coffin of the dowager empress was placed in the chapel close to the tomb of her parents and brother and sister-in-law. | WIKI |
| In 1957, the coffin was placed in the crypt under the chapel, until September 2006, when it was returned to Russia. | WIKI |
| Following Frederick IX's death in 1972, his coffin was placed in the chapel, draped with his Royal Standard, guarded by three silver lions from the Danish Crown Regalia, and flanked by a pair of candelabra in the shape of anchors. | WIKI |
| After the king's coffin was buried in 1985, only the candelabra remain in the chapel. | WIKI |
| St Andrew's Chapel and St Bridget's Chapel[edit] | WIKI |
| The altar in St Andrew's Chapel | WIKI |
| St Andrew's chapel was constructed in 1396, and St Bridget's in 1485. | WIKI |
| St Andrew's chapel was completely redecorated in 2010 by artist Peter Brandes, who provided a new altarpiece as well as a latticework separating the chapel from the nave. | WIKI |
| It is the intention of the parochial church council that in future the chapel will provide a more intimate setting for some of the church functions in the cathedral, such as weddings or baptisms. | WIKI |
| The chapel has its own small organ for these services. | WIKI |
| Since the Reformation, St Bridget's chapel has mainly been used to store various items of church inventory from Catholic times, no longer needed in the Lutheran era. | WIKI |
| The chapel also has the oldest gravestone in the cathedral, dating back to ca. | WIKI |
| [39] Queen Margrethe II has chosen St Birgitte's Chapel as the future burial site for herself with a sarcophagus created by artist Bjxc3xb8rn Nxc3xb8rgaard. | WIKI |
| Chapel of the Magi (Christian I's Chapel)[edit] | WIKI |
| Frederick V's chapel[edit] | WIKI |
| Christian IV's chapel[edit] | WIKI |
| Christian IX's chapel[edit] | WIKI |