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Old and New London
… found a monastery, which afterwards became a Benedictine abbey. The saint is commemorated in the Martyrologies of St. … monument should be erected in his honour in Westminster Abbey. It was on this occasion that Peel frankly and … lodge of master Masons, founded his chapel at Westminster Abbey. Sir Thomas Gresham, who planned the Royal Exchange, …
Old and New London
… was highly commending the epitaph just then set up in the Abbey on Mr. Purcell's monument"He has gone to that place … his death, in 1822. His remains were buried in Westminster Abbey, between Pitt and Fox. Mr. Rush, in the work above …
Old and New London
… still exists, along with some others, in Westminster Abbey. She left money by her will, desiring that her image, … crown glass before it, and should be set up in Westminster Abbey. A more lasting and popular "effigy" is the figure of … night or two previous to his public funeral in Westminster Abbey. In the last century Godolphin House became the …
Survey of London
… his involvement in their restorations of Tewkesbury Abbey and Worcester Cathedral in the late 1870s. 67 189. St …
Old and New London
… Hanover Square; besides the Precincts of the Savoy, the Abbey Precincts, and the Royal Palaces of Whitehall and St. … Mackenzie Walcott, "there is, with the exception of the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul's Cathedral, no other … was natural, that a population was growing up around the Abbey walls, and was continually increased further by a …
Old and New London
… Cross, "for the convenience of the officers of Westminster Abbey and Palace, on their way to Covent Garden;" and this, … Godfrey was erected in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey. The story of the murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey has … that this chapel was saved by the monks of St. Peter's Abbey, to whom the land about the neighbourhood belonged, and …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… archdeaconry of Rochester. He was buried in Westminster Abbey. Bourne says, "He was universally beloved, being a man … to the prisoners. He died in 1671, and was buried in the abbey of Holyrood House, under a magnificent tomb, with a …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… and be acquainted with affliction." Fuller's Hist. Waltham Abbey, p. 16. In the year 1548, the first of king Edward I. …
Old and New London
… Prebendary of St. Paul's. Formerly the monks of Waltham Abbey held an estate in this manor, called by them Cane Lond, … his memory, is erected in the south aisle of Westminster Abbey. The best known to fame of the many Roman Catholic …