Walks in London . he anniversary of her death. Her heart was givento the convent of Blackfriars. The queens tomb, of Petworth marble, is by Richard of Crundale,who erected her cross at Charing ; the railing is by Thomas, a smith ofLeighton P>eaudesert (Buzzard) ; the exquisite figure is by the English-man William Torel, who built the furnace in which the statue wascast in St. Margarets Churchyard. The effigy of Eleanor is the earliestportrait-statue we possess of an English sovereign. The beautifulfeatures of the dead queen are expressed in the most serene quietude : 1 II. P 226
Walks in London . he anniversary of her death. Her heart was givento the convent of Blackfriars. The queens tomb, of Petworth marble, is by Richard of Crundale,who erected her cross at Charing ; the railing is by Thomas, a smith ofLeighton P>eaudesert (Buzzard) ; the exquisite figure is by the English-man William Torel, who built the furnace in which the statue wascast in St. Margarets Churchyard. The effigy of Eleanor is the earliestportrait-statue we possess of an English sovereign. The beautifulfeatures of the dead queen are expressed in the most serene quietude : 1 II. P 226 Walks in London her long hair waves from beneath the circlet on her brow. One cansee the character which was always able to curb the wild temper of herhusband—the wife, as he wrote to the Abbot of Cluny, whom livinghe loved, and dead he should never cease to love. In the decorationsof the tomb, the arms of Castile and Leon, and of Ponthieu, hang uponvines and oak branches. When Abbot Feckenham placed an inscrip-. TOMB OF EDWARD I. tion on the tomb of Edward I., he inscribed on that of Eleanor: Regina Alionora consors Edwardi Primi fuit haec. Alionora, mori. Edward I. himself (1307) lies on the same side of the chapel, nearthe screen. He died at Burgh on Solway Firth, after a reign of thirty-four years, was buried for a time at Waltham, and then removed hither Chapel of Edward the Confessor 227 to a position between his fathers tomb and that of his brother body was embalmed like a mummy, bound in cerecloth, and robedin cloth of gold, with a crown on his head, a sceptre in one hand, andthe rod with the dove in the other. Thus he was seen when the tombwas opened in 1771. A wooden canopy once overshadowed the tomb,but this was broken down in a tumult at the funeral of Pulteney, Earlof Bath. Now the tomb of the greatest of the Ilantagenets, the lovingson and husband who erected such magnificent monuments to father andwife, is one of the plainest in the Abbey.
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