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Old and New London
… one. The kings buried in the Abbey are Sebert, Edward the Confessor, Henry III., Edward I., Edward III., Richard II., … chapel are fourteen legendary sculptures, respecting the Confessor. The first is the trial of Queen Emma; the next the … their respective fates; in the ninth sculpture is the Confessor's vision of the seven sleepers; the tenth shows how …
Old and New London
… it replaces the round Chapter House erected by Edward the Confessor, and is of a polygonal form, like that of … and this crypt embodies the original structure of the Confessor." Sir G. Gilbert Scott, in writing on the Chapter … whilst paying his devotions at the shrine of Edward the Confessor. It is scarcely necessary to repeat here the …
Old and New London
… in an undated "charter of sanctuary" granted by Edward the Confessor, who died in 1066, whilst the Abbey of Grace was … The period of its erection, previous to Edward the Confessor's days, will not probably ever be discovered. "In … angle. From Sebert's death up to the time of Edward the Confessor, the Abbey, it appears, remained a monument of the …
Old and New London
… the new Abbey of Westminster, the last work of Edward the Confessor, was chosen as the place for the coronation of the …
Old and New London
… of the monastery itselfwere the officers of Edward the Confessor, "thus," as Dean Stanley has touchingly observed, … and sacrarium; and at the east end are Edward the Confessor's, Henry VII.'s, and ten other chapels. Its … by a sweep, thereby enclosing the chapel of Edward the Confessor in a kind of semicircle, and excluding all the …
Old and New London
… it demolished. It is supposed to have been the work of the Confessor." The right of sanctuary, Stow tells us, extended … in the course of time the charitable charter of Edward the Confessor became a curse to the metropolis; the sanctuary at … the right reached back, if not to the time of Edward the Confessor, at least to the period when additional sanctity …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the former monastery at Deerhurst. When Edward the Confessor divided those possessions between the abbeys of St. …
Old and New London
… an ascertained fact that even in the reign of Edward the Confessor, and probably at an earlier date, there was a …
Old and New London
… also mentioned as the founder in the charter of Edward the Confessor; and these records, combined with the facts of his … At all events, long before the reign of Edward the Confessor such was the case; and the statement is …
Old and New London
… founders and benefactors of the School and AbbeyEdward the Confessor, Henry III., Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Victoria. …