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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ACCOUNT OF THE CLOISTERS. 285 The East Cloister is the most irregular in its construction, though at thesame time the most elaborate in its sculpture and ornaments, of the whole.It consists of eight divisions on the east side, and six on the west: not anytwo of which are precisely similar, as may be ascertained by the Sectionsin Plate XXXI. The five arches towards the north are both large andstrong; they sustain a portion of the weight of the South Transept. Thepannelling in each of the three northernmost divisions on the east side, con-sists of three trefoil-headed arches, surmounted by an equal number oflarge trefoils; in the fourth division are three pointed arches only: imme-diately under the capitals of the small pillars, from which the tracery springsin these compartments, are the remains of an horizontal list, or fillet, of gold,about three inches in breadth. In the next division, which in every parthas been richly decorated, is an entrance leading to the ancient Chapter-House,

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