Book Description
This text examines the Chapter House and Pyx Chamber, in the Great Cloister of Westminster Abbey, which formed part of the medieval Benedictine monastery. Both Chapter House and Pyx Chamber are now in the care of English Heritage.
Author : Warwick Rodwell
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Westminster (London, England)
ISBN : 9781850747918
This text examines the Chapter House and Pyx Chamber, in the Great Cloister of Westminster Abbey, which formed part of the medieval Benedictine monastery. Both Chapter House and Pyx Chamber are now in the care of English Heritage.
Author : Tony Trowles
Publisher : Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781857596496
- New edition of this exploration of one of Britain's greatest buildings - A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated survey of Westminster Abbey's art treasures Westminster Abbey has a history stretching back over a thousand years. Founded as a Benedictine monastery in the mid-tenth century, it is the coronation church where monarchs have been crowned amid great splendor since 1066. The present church, begun by Henry III in 1245, is a treasure house of architectural and artistic achievement on which each succeeding century has left its mark. The medieval and Renaissance tombs within the Abbey, though among the most important in Europe, form only a small part of the extraordinary collection of gravestones, memorials and monumental sculpture for which it has long been famous. Ranging from the thirteenth-century shrine of St Edward and the Renaissance splendor of Henry VII's Lady Chapel, to the literary memorials of Poets' Corner and the statues of twentieth-century martyrs on the Abbey's west front, this book describes the stained glass, furniture, sculpture, textiles, wall paintings and many other historic artefacts found within this remarkable church. Contents: Introduction; Edward the Confessor's Chapel; Sacrarium and High Altar; Quire and Crossing; North Transept and Ambulatory; South Ambulatory and Transept; Nave; Lady Chapel; Cloisters; Abbey Precincts.
Author : Richard Jenkyns
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 10,4 MB
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1847650821
Westminster Abbey is the most complex church in the world in terms of its history, functions and memories - perhaps the most complex building of any kind. It has been an abbey and a cathedral and is now a collegiate church and a royal peculiar. It is the coronation church, a royal mausoleum, a Valhalla for the tombs of the great, a 'national cathedral' and the 'Tomb of the Unknown Warrior'. This new edition recounts the story of this iconic building and the role it plays in our national psyche.
Author : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 1887
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ISBN :
Author : Warwick Rodwell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,53 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Abbeys
ISBN : 9780854312955
This volume tells the complete story of the Westminster Abbey Chapter House, which ranks as one of the spectacular achievements of European Gothic art & architecture as its builder, King Henry III, intended. Begun in the mid-1240s, & completed within a decade, its pre-eminence was recognized in its own day.
Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2024-09-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781913107475
A comprehensive and authoritative history that explores the significance of one of the most famous buildings and institutions in England Westminster Abbey was one of the most powerful churches in Catholic Christendom before transforming into a Protestant icon of British national and imperial identity. Celebrating the 750th anniversary of the consecration of the current Abbey church building, this book features engaging essays by a group of distinguished scholars that focus on different, yet often overlapping, aspects of the Abbey's history: its architecture and monuments; its Catholic monks and Protestant clergy; its place in religious and political revolutions; its relationship to the monarchy and royal court; its estates and educational endeavours; its congregations; and its tourists. Clearly written and wide-ranging in scope, this generously illustrated volume is a fascinating exploration of Westminster Abbey's thousand-year history and its meaning, significance, and impact within society both in Britain and beyond.
Author : S. E. Rigold
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : DIANA. DARKE
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2024
Category :
ISBN : 1911723472
Author : Jan Pacheri
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Benedictine movement (Anglican Communion)
ISBN : 9781847802408
An illustrated month-by-month diary of a Benedictine monk's year at Westminster Abbey in the Middle Ages, written and illustrated by Westminster Abbey's very own Head Gardener.
Author : Pope Gregory I
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 1949-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814603215
A translation of the biography written by Pope Gregory the Great, this official biography is also known as the Second Book of Dialogues. It is the earliest and thus the most valuable biography of St. Benedict.