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Title: The history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peter, Westminster : including notices and biographical memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854 Armstrong, Cosmo Byfield, John, 1788-1841 Byrne, Elizabeth Douthitt Byrne, John, 1786-1847 Carter, James, 1798-1855 Cleghorn, John Cooke, George, 1781-1834 Le Keux, Henry, 1787-1868 Le Keux, John, 1783-1846 Lewis, J., fl. 1818-1823 Matthews, T Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870 Neale, John Preston, 1780-1847 Radclyffe, William, 1780-1855 Roffe, Robert Cabbell, d. 1839 Roffe, John, 1769-1850 Sands, Robert, 1782-1855 Scott, John, 1774-1827 Smith, W. R., fl. before 1832-1851 Taylor, William Dean, 1794-1857 Thompson, James Robert, b. ca. 1799 Tingle, James, fl. 1824-1850 Varrall, John Charles, fl. 1818-1848 Willement, Thomas, 1786-1871 Woolnoth, W. (William)
Subjects: Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey Abbots Deans, Cathedral and collegiate Architecture, Gothic Church buildings Church architecture
Publisher: London : Published by the proprietor, J.P. Neale, Bennett-Street, Blackfriars-Road and sold also by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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rs. These recesses, according to Keepe, who callsthem ambries and lockiers, were anciently made use of to lay up thevestments and rich copes belonging to the Altar of St. Ed ward f: at theback of each, is a cross in mosaic. At each angle of the basement has been atwisted column, now removed or destroyed, between pilasters, which appearedto sustain the entablature. The tomb is more elegant in its design and richer in its materials than * Edwards tomb is represented in Plate XV, above the flight of stairs leading into the Chapel .-,scarcely any thing but the beams remain of the canopy which covered it. He now doth lie entombed here,Which furthered each good thing: Now nought he is but dust and bones,Which was a worthy King. The very Son of God, whom erstThis King did love right deere,Hath given to him immortal blisse For his good living here. Whilst livd this King, by him all thingsWere in most Godly plight; Fraud lay hid; great Peace was kept,And Honesty had might. f Mon. West. p. 147.
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HENRY THE THIRDS TOMB DESCRIBED. 77 the substructure. Keepe describes it as a composure of curious work,framed of diverse coloured marbles and glittering stones, chequered and giltwith gold, supported at each corner by twisted or serpentine columns of thesame speckled marble, all brought from beyond the seas, by his son Edward,on purpose to adorn this his fathers sepulchre*. On each side is a pan-nelling composed of a polished slab of dark red porphyry (now cracked)nearly three feet in length, and sixteen inches wide, with a guilloche orna-ment at the ends: two small diagonal squares of green jasper remain also,on the north side. At each angle are two spiral columns, with a kind of Co-rinthian capital ; but the tesseree with which they were originally inlaid, aremostly gone. The statue of King Henry which lies upon the tomb, is said by Walpole,to have been the first that was ever cast in this kingdom;; but he does notmention any authority for his assertion, and the performance itself

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