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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SaintEdward the Confessor. It has already been stated that the Choir extends across the transept tothe fourth column, westward, of the nave: on the east its extremity is boundedby the screen of St. Edwards Chapel, at the back of the altar-piece, whicbcrosses the area at the second column from the central tower. Seven greatarches on each side, (inclosed by modern wainscotting to about half the heightof the supporting columns) with a row of double arches above, and a rangeof upper windows, separate it from the other divisions of the Church. Thearchitecture, though nearly corresponding throughout, is sufficiently variedto shew the exact points where Henry the Thirds building terminated, andthatof Edward, his son, commenced : this was at the first column, westward,from the central tower. In the work of Edwards reign, the shafts which sur-round the larger columns are not encircled by rows of fillets, like those ofHenrys reign, but every alternate one has had a metal cap introduced instead,
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INTERIOR OF THE CHOIR. 37 at the same heights as the fillets: the mouldings also, both of the greaterand the lesser arches, are different, and other minute variations may be tracedin divers places*. Henrys building includes the whole eastern part of theChurch to the first column west from the transept; from thence, Edwardextended it to the second column of the Nave. The large columns of the Choir are of different descriptions: those tothe westward of the tower are each surrounded by eight shafts, four of whichare detached, but the others are wrought out of the main substance of thecolumns themselves. The piers of the tower also, which are of immensemagnitude, are each surrounded by sixteen shafts wrought out of the mainstones; but. the columns more eastward are encircled by four shafts only; allwhich are detached, excepting at their bases and capitals, where the filletssurround them : the great piers have only a single fillet each, which conjoinswith the capitals of the large arches.

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