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Title: A Historical description of Westminster Abbey : its monuments and curiosities
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, George Albert, 1870-1951. signer. sgn UPB
Subjects: Westminster Abbey
Publisher: (London) : Printed for the Vergers in the Abbey by Jas. Truscott & Son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ingfilled with the portcullis and crown; three fleur-de-lis; falconand fetterlock; the union of the roses of York and Lancasterentwined in a crown; the thistle and crown; the initial R. H.and a crown, and the three lions of England. Being entered,your eye will naturally be directed to the lofty ceiling, which is instone, wrought with such astonishing variety of figures, as nodescription can reach. The stalls are of brown wainscot, withGothic canopies, most beautifully carved, as are the seats, withstrange devices, which nothing on wood is now equal to. Thepavement is of black and white marble, done at the charge ofDr. Killigrew, once Prebendary of this Abbey, as appears by twoinscriptions, one on a plate of brass, infixed in the rise towardsthe founders tomb, the other cut in the pavement. The east viewfrom the entrance presents you with the brass chapel and tomb ofthe founder; and round it, where the east end forms a semicircle,are the Chapels of the Dukes of Buckingham and Richmond.
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CENTRE, HENRY VIls CHAPEL. CHAPEL OF HENRY VII. 21 The walls of the nave and aisles are wrought in the most curiousfigures imaginable, and contain one hundred and twenty largestatues of Patriarchs, Saints, Martyrs, and Confessors, placed inniches, under which are angels, supporting imperial crowns, all ofthem esteemed so curious, that the best masters have travelledfrom abroad to copy them. The windows, which are fourteen inthe upper, and nineteen in the lower range, including the sideaisles and portico, were formerly of painted or diapered glass,having in every pane a white rose, the badge of Lancaster, or anp§, the initial letter of the founders name, and portcullises, thebadge of the Beauforts crowned, of which a few only are nowremaining. In the upper window, east end, Henry VII. is repre-sented in stained glass. The ceiling is of stone, and persons canwalk between the roof and ceiling, where there is a spaciousroom, lighted by Gothic openings through the wall. General Admeasurem

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