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
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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; 2. King Henry the Third ; 3. Raymond, Earl of Provence; 4. Rogerde Quincy, Earl of Winton ; 5. Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln; 6. Richard, Earl of Cornwall; and7. R. Earl of Rothsey. Those in the North Aisle are, (as numbered) 1. William de Fortibus, Earl ofAlbemarle; 2. John, Earl of Warren and Surrey; 3. Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester; 4. RogerBigod, Earl of Norfolk; 5. Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester; 6. Lewis the Eighth, King of France ;and 7. Frederick the Second, Emperor of Germany : the Shields of Alexander the Third of Scotland,and Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, are gone. Very few of the small Shields remain perfect;those which are, or nearly so, in the South Aisle, correspond with the numbers in the text, 9, 10, 17,18, 19, and 20: 11, 12, 15, and 16, are wholly destroyed; and very little remains of 13 and 14. Themost perfect of those in the North Aisle are 10 and 12 ; but little remains of 11, 15, 17, and 18; and9, 13, 14, 16, 19, and 20, are entirely gone.
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SECTION OF TEE NORTH TRANSECT. Ionder.,PulUst^l31hrck j.jSi INTERIOR OF THE NORTH TRANSEPT. 29 the outer mouldings are ornamented with roses, as are also the blank arches,or pannels,at the sides, where now are the monuments of Admiral Sir CharlesWager, and Admiral Vernon. A high and slender pier divides the en-trances from each other, and beneath them have been recently placed largewainscot presses, containing the wax figures of Frances Teresa, Duchess ofRichmond, relict of Charles Stuart, last Duke of Richmond of that name; andKatharine, natural daughter of James the Second, and relict of John Sheffield,Duke of Buckinghamshire and Normanby. The spandrils above have beenadorned by alto-relievos representing Samson tearing asunder the lions jaws,and other subjects, which are now too greatly mutilated to admit of beingaccurately traced, intermixed with birds, branches of oak, entwined animals,the bust of an angel, &c. A colonnade of six pointed arches, with trefoilheads beneath, res

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