Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . gn Qf Henry III. That prince, Dantes kingof simple life2, was the greatest virtuoso of his time : hehad an unbounded passion for architecture and the sister,and then subsidiary, arts of painting and sculpture, andfor collecting beautiful stuffs, jewellery, and not least of allrelics. Of the last article on this list there was no lackof supply at that age, and we hear of a phial of the Holy 1 Charter in 29th Report of the Record Office. Cited W. R. Lethaby,Westminster Abbey and Craftsmen, p. 102. 2 Vedete il Re della semplice vita Seder Ik sol
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . gn Qf Henry III. That prince, Dantes kingof simple life2, was the greatest virtuoso of his time : hehad an unbounded passion for architecture and the sister,and then subsidiary, arts of painting and sculpture, andfor collecting beautiful stuffs, jewellery, and not least of allrelics. Of the last article on this list there was no lackof supply at that age, and we hear of a phial of the Holy 1 Charter in 29th Report of the Record Office. Cited W. R. Lethaby,Westminster Abbey and Craftsmen, p. 102. 2 Vedete il Re della semplice vita Seder Ik solo, Arrigo d Inghilterra,Ouesti ha ne rami suoi migliore uscita. Purgat. vii. 130. Plate WESTMINSTER ABBEY ch. xv] WESTMINSTER ABBEY 263 Blood, warranted by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and astone with a footprint left by our Saviour at his Ascension,which the king bore in procession from S. Pauls toWestminster. To Henrys taste for art we owe whatI venture to call the loveliest of all churches (PlateLXXVII), but his people had good reason to complainof his extravagance in building and the extortion bywhich it was supported, as the subjects of Solomon andJustinian in their time had done for the same reason. As early as 1220 a Lady Chapel had been built at The firstthe east end of the Confessors apse, no doubt in the chapelstyle of Salisbury. It had a wooden roof, and fromtraces that have been found it seems to have occupiedthe area of the nave of its successor, the present chapelof Henry VII. To this the king had been a 1241 he had ordered a golden shrine for the Confessor,and was no doubt contemplating the rebuilding of theabbey church itself. After two year
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