. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. hdamaged. Several iron hooks are left, from which, it is probable,lamps were formerly suspended. From this part buttresses ascend ;between them canopies (three of which are destroyed) of exceedingrichness. Seven are for figures as large as life. The middle statueis removed ; the others consist of a man kneeling at his devotions, aking erect, praying; St. George in armour, piercing the dragonsthroat, a female seated, with her hands crossed, another man, andSt. Dionysius, who carried his head after decapitation.
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. hdamaged. Several iron hooks are left, from which, it is probable,lamps were formerly suspended. From this part buttresses ascend ;between them canopies (three of which are destroyed) of exceedingrichness. Seven are for figures as large as life. The middle statueis removed ; the others consist of a man kneeling at his devotions, aking erect, praying; St. George in armour, piercing the dragonsthroat, a female seated, with her hands crossed, another man, andSt. Dionysius, who carried his head after decapitation. Directly over the tomb of Henry the Fifth is the Chantry whichbad an altar-piece of fine carvings. Two steps are still in being,and the marks of its back against the wall, with a square niche oneach side. Two other recesses remain on the north and south wallsof the chantry which have had shutters that have been wrestedfrom their hinges, now broken in the wall. On the cornice overthe altar, are thirty statues in four ranges ; they are greatly brokenand decayed. HISTORY OF Armour of Henry the Fifth, In this oratory are preserved several relics of this justly re-nowned monarch, which consist of his helmet, saddle, and first is of iron, and is fixed on a bar extending across the frontof the chapel. The wood work of the saddle alone remains; itwas formerly covered with blue velvet, powdered with fleurs-de-lis,or, and is 27 inches long, 15 inches high before, and 13 shield is lined with sage green damask semee of fleurs-de-lisacross the middle, worked on rich crimson velvet an escarbuncle oron a field gules, referring to the kings mother Joan of Navarre. The present coffin of Edward the confessor may be seen fromthe parapet of Henry the Fifths chapel; it is deposited within theancient stone work, about the height of the architrave. It was madeby order of James the second, (who commanded the old coffin to beenclosed within it) of strong planks five inch
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