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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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cagonthan to any other figure. Commencing at the Screen which crosses the area atthe back of the Altar-piece, it is bounded on each side by four large columns,each of which is surrounded by the same number of detached shafts ; theseare banded to the main columns by three rows of mouldings, having circularcaps. The great arches are all pointed, but those to the east are far more acutely * Westmonasterium, Vol. I. p. 63. f Ibid. p. 62. X It may not be superfluous to remark that the back ground in the above picture is entirelydiapered with small squares, each inclosing an expanded flower; and having an almost exact similitudeto the mural sculpturing over the ancient parts of the Abbey Church. A good copy of this picturewas made by the late Mr. J. Carter, in 1786, and an engraving from it, by himself, coloured, waspublished in the first volume of the Specimens of Ancient Sculpture and Painting. The engravingmade by Vertue, in 1718, from the same original, is incorrect in various respects.
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ST. EDWARDS CHAPEL DESCRIBED. 47 so than the two which adjoin to the choir: this has arisen from the support-ing columns having been here arranged more nearly contiguous than in thenave and choir, in order to allow for the due contraction of this part of the.building. There is also a diversity arising from the same cause in thesmaller arches above; those only over the westernmost arches being double,whilst all the others are single: in other respects, as in the general formsand variations of the mouldings, the mural sculpturing, &c. this division issimilar to the corresponding line of the choir. The three upper windows tothe east are filled with ancient stained glass, displaying full length repre-sentations of King Edward, St. John, his Patron Saint; and other figures. The Screen which extends across this Chapel on the west, is one of themost remarkable specimens of ancient art that now remains; and althoughwoefully dilapidated, it is still exceedingly interesting and curious. The

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