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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pel;but not any memorial of him now remains : hewas commemorated by a Brass figure with thisinscription : Haec est Abbatis Willelmi tumba, sciatis ; Quern mors amovit, et Curtlyngtonia fovit. In mortis portu se Christi corpore pavit, Sic exspiravit mundus cor.fessus ab ortu. Between the Chapels of St. Benedict and St.Edmund, and partly built into the south wall,under a segment arch, is an altar Tomb in mcmoryof (Catherine, youngest daughter of Henry III,who died in 1257, in the fifth year of her age. Itappears, says Strype, ( Hist, of Lond. VTol. II.p. 519) from the Records in the Tower, thatat the time of his daughter Katherines death, theKing ordered a sumptuous Monument to be erectedto her, and gave orders to his Treasurer and Cham*bcrlain of the Treasury, to deliver to Master Simonde Wells, five marks and a half for his expenses ingoing to London for a certain Brass Jwas>e to setupon her tomb, and returning home again: and.upon this tomb was likewise placed a Silver Image, n mx
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r.i/t.lCfltnnettS.fil,i.-km,irsJiead, ST. EDMUNDS CHAPEL. 153 for winch William de Gloucester, the Kings Gold-smith, was paid seventy marks. This Tombwas ornamented with Mosaic work of similar cha-racter and materials to that of Henry himself inthe Confessors Chapel; and most of it is still re-maining at the top, but the tesserae which adornedthe sides have been picked out. The design onthe slab consists of several circles, each about eightinches in diameter, ranging longitudinally downthe middle, and involved by guilloche borderings,combining with semicircles at the sides, and de-scribing intermediate octagons : two slabs of po-lished serpentine marble remain in the circles. Onthe wall, at the back of the tomb, were painted andgilt several small figures of children, but thesehave been so greatly defaced as hardly to be dis- cerned. On the wall above, beneath the ancienttrefoil-headed arch, are traces of other paintings,said by Dart to appear like a piece of Churchperspective j yet no

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