The Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and ArchitectureDitchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
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The Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and Architecture
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
Cathedrals -- Great Britain; Church architecture -- Great Britain
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham.
Viscount Palmerston, statue.
Sir Robert Peel, statue.
Lord Beaconsfield, statue.
Gladstone (no monument yet erected).
Warren Hastings (buried elsewhere).
Richard Cobden, bust (buried elsewhere).
_Poets' Corner_--
John Dryden, bust.
H. Wadsworth Longfellow, bust.
Abraham Cowley.
Geoffrey Chaucer.
Lord Tennyson, bust.
Robert Browning (no monument).
Michael Drayton.
Ben Jonson, monument bears same inscription as stone above grave.
Edmund Spenser.
Samuel Butler (buried elsewhere).
John Milton.
Thomas Gray (buried elsewhere).
Matthew Prior.
Thomas Campbell.
Robert Southey (buried elsewhere), bust.
S. Taylor Coleridge (buried elsewhere), bust.
William Shakespeare.
Robert Burns (buried elsewhere), bust.
James Thomson (buried elsewhere).
John Gay (buried?).
Oliver Goldsmith, medallion (buried elsewhere).
Sir W. Scott, replica of bust at Abbotsford.
John Ruskin, medallion.
George Frederick Handel, statue.
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, portrait head.
W. Makepeace Thackeray (buried elsewhere), bust.
Joseph Addison (buried in Henry VII.'s Chapel).
Lord Macaulay, bust.
William Camden.
David Garrick, full-length figure.
Among those buried here without monuments are--
Sir John and Francis Beaumont.
Sir John Denham.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (monument at St. Paul's).
Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Charles Dickens.
Sir William Davenant.
Richard Hakluyt.
Thomas Parr.
Queen Anne, Richard III.'s wife, is believed to be lying here.
Monuments to Dr. Busby and Dr. Robert South.
Portion of tomb of Anne of Cleves.
Within the rails of the Choir are three old tombs--
Aveline, Countess of Lancaster, married to Henry III.'s son,
Edmund Crouchback. Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, cousin to
Edward I., employed as general in wars in Scotland.
Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster.
_South Ambulatory_--
Supposed tomb of King Siebert.
_Chapel of St. Edmund_--
William de Valence, Earl of Pembroke (father of above),
half-brother to Henry III. This is the only existing example in
England of an effigy in Limoges enamel work.
Lord Lytton, black marble slab.
_North Ambulatory_--
General James Wolfe.
_Chapel of St. Paul_--
James Watt, statue.
_Islip Chapel_--
Remains of Islip's tomb form a table by the window.
_St. John's Chapel_--
Sir John Franklin.
_St. Andrew's Chapel_--
Sir Humphrey Davy (buried elsewhere), tablet.
Mrs. Siddons, statue.
John Kemble, statue.
Among those who are buried in the Cloisters are--
Thomas Betterton, actor.
Mrs. Bracegirdle, actress.
Aphra Behu.
Samuel Foote.
A tablet in the Cloisters has been put up in memory of seven of
the Queen's Westminster Volunteers killed in South Africa,
1900.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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