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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d partly, by the time necessarily expended in refit-ting the Choir for its accustomed solemnities. In the alterations which have been recently made, and which wereexecuted under the superintendence of Benjamin Wyatt, Esq. the present * In the Interior View taken from the Vaultings, Plate XXXVIII, an imposing feature of thisgorgeous Ceremony is delineated, in a kind of Birds Eye Perspective, which was sketched from themiddle arch at the east end, nearly fifty-three feet above the pavement of the Choir. The Church isshewn as fitted up on that occasion : the precise point of time is when the King, after having beencrowned, was seated in his Chair, on the centre of the platform immediately under the great tower,and receiving the homage of the Duke of York, and other Princes of the Blood Royal. The Vaultings,which are of great extent, are partly floored with oak, and partly paved with brick : many Heads,both animal and human, of bold and grotesque character, ornament the piers and imposts.
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