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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uding can-talivers, (which support the organ-loft) lozenges, quatrefoils, &c. among itsornaments. The Stalls, which commence in this part, and extend nearly to thewestern piers of the great tower, are composed of oak, and are thirty-two innumber, besides those for the Dean and Sub-Dean. They are ornamented i * The View from Poets Corner, looking across the Choir, Plate XXX, will exemplify the abovedescription The acutely-pointed arch on the left, extends across the south aisle. The perspectiveexhibits the western piers of the great tower, with their contiguous arches, and the west side, vaulting,and upper compartments of the northern extremity of the North Transept. In this Plate the greatRose Window, decribed in p. 11, is distinctly seen ; the singular diversity and richness of the mould-ings of the double arches are likewise particularly delineated. The figures introduced shew themanner in which the Choristers enter the Choir, after robing themselves in the Chapel of St. Blaize.
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