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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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lls are embattled, and the roof is covered withlead. The central tower, or rather lantern, has adwarfish and urifinished aspect; it has two narrow, side-aisles by lofty cloistered columns, supportingpointed arches, above which are the triforium andthe clerestory windows, some of which are filledwith stained glass, and from the piers betweenthem spring the intersecting arches of the vaultedceiling. The pillars terminate towu rds the east bya sweep, thereby enclosing the chapel of Edwardthe Confessor in a kind of semicircle, and exclud-ing all the rest. The long side-aisles are coax- We.itmlnster Abbey.) TOMBS AND MONUMENTS. 4t5 pletely filled with monuments erected to the those of the House of Stuart, he looks in vain for memory of illustrious personages. the tombs of almost all the great men that have In what is called the open part of the Abbey, adorned our annals. Instead of Simon Montfort, says Mr. Godwin, in his Essay on Sepulchres, ; Stephen Langton, and Wickliffe, and the Monta-
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WESTMINSTER ABBEY : INTERIOR OF THE CHOIR. are to be found the tombs of many of our great cutes, and the Nevilles, and Cardinal Wolsey, andliterary characters, mixed with those of others who : Cranmer, and Sir Philip Sidney, and Lord Chan-have a very slight claim to such a distinction. In ( cellor Bacon, and multitudes of others that ofterthe enclosed part the spectator is much more ; themselves to the memory, we find Sir Johnstruck with the capriciousness of the muse of Pickering, and Sir Bernard Brocas, who lost hismonumental fame. Except the kings down to head in the cause of Richard II., and Colouf^l 4i6 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Westminster Abbey. Popham, and Thomas Thynne, who is inimortaHsedfor having been shot in his coach, and Mrs. Night-ingale. There is good reason for the absence ofmost, if not all, of the worthies above mentioned.We cannot, of course, in these pages give any-thing like a detailed description of all the monu-ments that grace—or rather disgrace—the walls ofth

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