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Image from page 268 of “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” (1818)
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Identifier: historyantiquiti02bray
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
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ciently separated from the area by a complete stone Screenbeautifully executed in the Pointed style, but a large portion of the easternside has been long cut away to admit a new entrance of wood ; the originaldoorway which opened into the staircase leading to the Oratory over theChapel having been walled up*. This Screen consists, in the upright, oftwo principal divisions. The lowermost division is separated by buttressesinto three compartments, viz. a low-arched doorway (leading to the staircase),with a bracket for a statue, and pannelled tracery above it; and two windows,each consisting of three ranges of pierced arches, rising from a pannelledbasement, with quatrefoils in squares beneath charged with roses and * In the accompanying print, viz. Plate XXIV, the Screen is represented as being wholly ofstone. In some Drawings on a Vellum Roll relating to Abbot Islip, now in the possession of theAntiquary Society, all the upper niches of the Screen are represented as containing figures,
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