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Title: Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of highly-finished engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions of such objects in the metropolis and the surrounding country as are most remarkable for antiquity, architectural grandeur, or picturesque beauty
Year: 1804 (1800s)
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Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: London : Published by Vernor and Hood, Poultry J. Storer and J. Greig
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the feet of Richard the Second, projecting on the pavement; andElizabeth, daughter of Henry the Seventh, one nearly opposite on the southside equally plain. Besides these, there repose in this chapel, under stonesonce plated with brass, the bodies of Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Glou-cester, and John Wallham, bishop of Salisbury. The brass on the gravestoneof the latter still remains tolerably perfect, but that of the former has beenlong removed. WESTMINSTER ABBEY.The solitary and forlorn SHRINE OP EDWARD THE CONFESSOR Now stands a mere skeleton of what it once was. This beautiful memorialconsists of three rows of arches ; the lower pointed, the upper round. Oneach side of the lower was a most elegant serpentine pillar : the two westernnow only remain; and a capital to the east. The wooden Ionic top is muchbroken, and covered with dust. The mosaic is picked away in every part withinreach; only three lozenges of about a foot square, and five circular pieces ofthe- rich marbles, remain.
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VOL. II. WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Of the Inscription on the architrave the following is legible : Omni . . .Insignis : ViRTUTEM : Laudibus : Heros : Sanctus Edward . . . . Onthe south side, Die . . . . On the east end, . . . . Moriens .... 1065 Super -^thera Scandit .... Sursum Corda . I. A. on the north side.—^Thus translated : The hero renowned for all virtues. Saint Edward the Confessor and venerable king, Dying the 5th of January, ascended to the skies. Lift up your hearts 1 « He died Anno Domini 1065.

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