The Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and ArchitectureDitchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
History
The Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and Architecture
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
Cathedrals -- Great Britain; Church architecture -- Great Britain
Siebert, King of the East Saxons.
Edward the Confessor.
Henry III.
Edward I.
Edward III.
Richard II.
Henry V.
Edward V.
Henry VII.
Edward VI.
James I.
Charles II.
William III.
George II.
LIST OF MONUMENTS
_St. Edward's Chapel, or the Chapel of the Kings_--
Edward the Confessor.
Henry III.
Henry V.
Edward III.
Edward I.
Eleanor of Castile.
Queen Philippa.
Richard II. and Queen.
Queen Editha and Queen Matilda (good Queen Maud)
are buried here.
_Henry VII.'s Chapel_--
Mary Queen of Scots.
Queens Elizabeth and Mary.
Henry VII. and his Queen.
James I. No monument.
In the "Stuart Vault" are buried--
Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, and Prince Rupert.
Lady Arabella Stuart, Anne Hyde, and several Royal children.
In the "Royal Vault" are buried--
Charles II.
Queen Mary II.
William III.
Queen Anne.
Prince George of Denmark.
Under the Nave of the Chapel are buried--
George II. and Caroline of Anspach.
Edward VI. The old altar by Torregiano under which he was laid has
been of late years restored.
In "Oliver's Vault" were originally buried--
_Cromwell_, and other leaders of the Commonwealth; the only
body that has remained undisturbed is that of the Protector's
daughter, Elizabeth Claypole.
A small sarcophagus contains the bones supposed to be those of
Edward V. and the Duke of York.
In this Chapel are also buried--
Addison, to whom a statue was raised in 1809 in the _Poets' Corner_.
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, an immense tomb.
_Nave and Choir_--
Charles James Fox.
Henry Fox, Lord Holland.
Major-General Charles George Gordon, bronze bust.
William Pitt.
William Wordsworth, seated statue. }
John Keble, bust. }
Frederick D. Maurice, bust. } Baptistery.
Charles Kingsley, bust. }
Matthew Arnold, bust. }
Dr. T. Arnold, bust. }
William Congreve.
Major John André.
Charles Robert Darwin, medallion portrait.
(Sir John Herschell, buried next to Darwin).
Ben Jonson (buried here--monument in Poets' Corner).
Sir Charles Lyell, bust.
Sir Isaac Newton.
Buried here are--
David Livingstone, }
Robert Stephenson, } without monument.
Dean Trench, }
Sir George Gilbert Scott, }
Lord Lawrence, bust.
Sir James Outram (a bas-relief of Relief of Lucknow).
Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde.
Dr. Isaac Watts.
John and Charles Wesley (buried elsewhere).
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel.
Sir Godfrey Kneller, the only painter commemorated in the Abbey.
William Wilberforce, seated figure.
Henry Purcell, tablet.
(Sir William Sterndale Bennett buried here.)
[Illustration INTERIOR FROM CHAPEL OF ST. JOHN]
_North Transept_--
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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