The history and antiquities of the abbey church of StPeter, Westminster : including notices and biographical memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation . rs. These recesses, according to Keepe, who callsthem ambries and lockiers, were anciently made use of to lay up thevestments and rich copes belonging to the Altar of St. Ed ward f: at theback of each, is a cross in mosaic. At each angle of the basement has been atwisted column, now removed or destroyed, between pilasters, which appearedto sustain the entablature. The tomb is more elegant in its design and richer in its materials than
The history and antiquities of the abbey church of StPeter, Westminster : including notices and biographical memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation . rs. These recesses, according to Keepe, who callsthem ambries and lockiers, were anciently made use of to lay up thevestments and rich copes belonging to the Altar of St. Ed ward f: at theback of each, is a cross in mosaic. At each angle of the basement has been atwisted column, now removed or destroyed, between pilasters, which appearedto sustain the entablature. The tomb is more elegant in its design and richer in its materials than * Edwards tomb is represented in Plate XV, above the flight of stairs leading into the Chapel .-,scarcely any thing but the beams remain of the canopy which covered it. He now doth lie entombed here,Which furthered each good thing: Now nought he is but dust and bones,Which was a worthy King. The very Son of God, whom erstThis King did love right deere,Hath given to him immortal blisse For his good living here. Whilst livd this King, by him all thingsWere in most Godly plight; Fraud lay hid; great Peace was kept,And Honesty had might. f Mon. West. p. HENRY THE THIRDS TOMB DESCRIBED. 77 the substructure. Keepe describes it as a composure of curious work,framed of diverse coloured marbles and glittering stones, chequered and giltwith gold, supported at each corner by twisted or serpentine columns of thesame speckled marble, all brought from beyond the seas, by his son Edward,on purpose to adorn this his fathers sepulchre*. On each side is a pan-nelling composed of a polished slab of dark red porphyry (now cracked)nearly three feet in length, and sixteen inches wide, with a guilloche orna-ment at the ends: two small diagonal squares of green jasper remain also,on the north side. At each angle are two spiral columns, with a kind of Co-rinthian capital ; but the tesseree with which they were originally inlaid, aremostly gone. The statue of King Henry which lies upon the tomb,
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