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Old and New London
… Westminster Abbey Chapter House, cloister and Deanery CHAPTER LIV. WESTMINSTER ABBEY.THE CHAPTER HOUSE, … are both entire; and the same may be said of the Jerusalem Chamber. Leaving the abbey church by a doorway at the east … of his monks fell under suspicion, and were sent to the Tower. This money (100,000) had been laid up for the Scotch …
Old and New London
… CHAPTER XLIX. WESTMINSTER ABBEY.ITS EARLY HISTORY. "And they shall then behold the scene around In wasted age, in … to distinguish it from the Abbey of Grace on Tower Hill, called "Eastminster;" Maitland, however, proves … the present college hall, the kitchen, the Jerusalem Chamber, the abbot's house (now the Deanery), the bailiff's, …
Old and New London
… royal heads receive the sacred gold; It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep: There made like gods, like mortals … robed themselves in the Lords' House and Painted Chamber. The Judges also, with those of the long robe, the … trumpets meanwhile sounding, the drums beating, and the Tower and Park guns firing by signal. Mr. Rush, the American …
Old and New London
… pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof; By its own weight made steadfast and … the Abbey possessed 97 towns and villages, 17 hamlets, and 216 manors. Its officers fed hundreds of persons … as a principal feature a spire rising from the low central tower. Mr. A. Wood remarks with great justice here: "That …
Old and New London
… Westminster Abbey The sanctuary and almonry CHAPTER LVII. THE SANCTUARY AND THE ALMONRY. "I … let us satisfy our eyes With the memorials, and the things of fame, That do renown this city." Shakespeare, " Twelfth … were the Minories and St. Katharine's Hospital, near the Tower; Fulwood's Rents and Baldwin's Gardens, near Gray's …
Survey of London
… CHAPTER 18 - WESTMINSTER BRIDGE ROAD [See plates 44, 45 and 46.] For the formation of the bridge approach on the Surrey side the Commissioners … being H.J. Paull and Alfred Bickerdike. 173 The Lincoln Tower and spire, named after the American president, were …
Old and New London
… of Westminster, the field Where mutual frauds are fought, and no side yield." Ben Jonson. Law Students residing in the … up Westminster Hall. If William the Conqueror erected the Tower of London, at all events it was his son, William Rufus, … doomed sovereign, with an insolent pride, 'it is but a bed-chamber to the palace that I will ere long raise up.'" Camden …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Westminster hundred Upper division THE HUNDRED OF WESTMINSTER (Upper Division) The hundred of Westminster … a coherent area on either side of the river near Deerhurst and partly as isolated estates in the north-east part of the county, and presumably constituted the possessions of the former …
Old and New London
… forget, though there we are forgot." Byron. Abbot Ingulph and Queen EdgithaA Monastic School in the "Dark Ages"The … other ways also, collecting the scholars into one spacious chamber, and making regulations for their support and … quote the words of the Builder: "It was a little square tower of timber, lath, and plaster, pierced with several …
Old and New London
… 1700. "The pillar'd dome magnific heaves Its ample roof, and luxury within Pours out its glittering stores." Thomson. The Palaces of England and France comparedThe Mulberry GardenJohn … his coronation robes, which was originally in the Presence Chamber at St. James's Palace. The garden, or west front, of …