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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sculpture in compartment B was probablyintended as an allegorical representation of the Virgin triumphing over the Dragon, or Satan, throughthe power of the Cross. In compartment C the sitting figure would seem to represent our Saviour,who is surrounded by his worshippers. The detached capitals marked A, E, and D, are copied fromthose that crown the shafts which support the trefoil-headed arches, and are here given to shewtheir variety and richness; the order of the initials points out their relative positions. t Keepe, who wrote his Monumenta TVestmonasteriensia in 1681, speaking of the Chapel ofSt. Michael, says, * this Chapel, with part of the Chapels of St. John the Evangelist and St. Andrew,are now taken up (and the monuments almost covered) by the scaffolds placed here, being made use ofat present for the Lower Convocation House for the Deans, Prebends, Doctors, &c. as that of KingHenry VII. is for the Archbishops and Bishops, when the Parliament sits at Westminster. P. 170.
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Drawn, try TP Neale EnfSiaved byl Matthews WliiTMIIiriTIlIl, A®IBEX VIEW IH POETS COME1 LOOKING SOUTH EAST-. To EDMUND PRESTON ESQ of YARMOUTH .NORFOLK. m Ternem-irance, of many Jandnefses. in Colon, of his Taer/maye,, and of/>nra,te, tstxeni; inis />nne is- mscriled- iy y ^J^ggfe ImdoiiRih.OcC.uSlS. iy JTNaiUiSRmrtfJ/>SrJ3Udcfruirs RcnZ Jt Mine, fohnjm Jt CCheapsidc: INTERIOR OF THE SOUTH TRANSEPT. 33 others, but wider: it is now partly filled up by the monument of the poetGoldsmith, under which a low circular arch has been constructed. Thesecond compartment is formed by six pointed arches, with trefoils below,rising from small clustered columns ; behind which is a continuation of thepassage leading between the piers. Another range of six trefoil-headedpointed arches forms the third compartment: these are supported in frontby tall slender columns, and pierced, exteriorly, into windows, to whicha deep splay extends obliquely from the columns. Three elegant doublearches, with

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