Identifier: historyantiquiti02bray (find matches)
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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ed into twenty-four large, and fourteensmall compartments, by two principal, and four inferior mullions, and fourtransoms. All the divisions are filled by painted glass, of brilliant colouring,and disposed as follows: In the apex of the arch is a quatrefoil, belowwhich, in the three central divisions, are the three figures of Abraham, Isaac,and Jacob ; and at the sides the date 1735, in circles within trefoils. Beneathis a range of seven small quatrefoil lights, enriched with various colouredglass. Then follow, in succession, in two rows of the large compartments,seven in each row, the figures of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulon,Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph, Benjamin, Moses, and Aaron.Beneath, in the three middle lights, are the arms and supporters of Georgethe Second ; and at the sides the arms of King Sebert, Queen Elizabeth,Dean Wilcocks, Bishop of Rochester, and the College of Westminster. All * See the Perspective View of the Nave and South Aisle, Plate XXXVII.
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