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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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han the Coronation in this very Church (anno 1420) of theHeiress of the crown of France, by marriage with whom he became Heirapparent to that crown, and Regent of the Kingdom during the life of thereigning King. Mr. Carter, on the contrary, who has depicted both relievosas representing the Coronation of aKingf, imagines that they were intendedfor Henry the Fifths respective Coronations in England and in France, andthis is most probably the truth ; though Dart, without the least valid authoritywhatever, calls them the Coronations of Henry the Seventh and his Queen.The principal figure in each compartment was certainly intended for that ofHenry the Fifth himself; they are nearly counterparts of each other, andresemble all the authentic likenesses which we have of that Monarch. Onthe north side, two mitred figures are crowning Henry, who is seated on athrone, and near them are four attendants, two of whom are kneeling: the * Sepulchral Mon. Vol. II. f Specimens of Ancient Sculp. Vol. II.
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CHAPEL OF HENRY V. 95 south compartment has only two mitred figures placing the crown on theKings head. The canopies over the Coronation and nine small figures, aresurmounted by devices of the swan and antelope, alternately ; over the sixfigures, is a cornice charged with trefoils. The large cornices under thefigures are likewise ornamented with swans and antelopes, collared, andchained to a tree, on which is a flaming beacon, or crescet light*. Overthe points of the arches, are pendant shields with Henrys arms and crest,as before described ; and in the spandrils are the same arms on larger shields,each of which is supported by four angels f. In the passage below the Chapel, at the east end of the recess containingHenrys tomb, is the following inscription painted on the stone-work underthe iron rails, in black Roman capitals on a gold ground: it is now partlydefaced, but may still be read. Henricus Quintus >$< Gallorum Mastixjacet hac Henricus in Uma, 1422. Domett Omnia Virtus.P

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