The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . p. 200.) it remainedcharged with a pension of ten marks to that presentation is now vested in the Arthingtons,(formerly of Arthington, in this parish,) whose familyobtained it by purchase. TOMB OF QUEEN ELEANOR, WESTMINSTER ABBEY. After the burial of Queen Eleanor, the highly-lamented consort of Edward I. in St. Edwards chapel,at Westminster, in December, 1290, a splendid tombwas raised to her memory by that sovereig
The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . p. 200.) it remainedcharged with a pension of ten marks to that presentation is now vested in the Arthingtons,(formerly of Arthington, in this parish,) whose familyobtained it by purchase. TOMB OF QUEEN ELEANOR, WESTMINSTER ABBEY. After the burial of Queen Eleanor, the highly-lamented consort of Edward I. in St. Edwards chapel,at Westminster, in December, 1290, a splendid tombwas raised to her memory by that sovereign; and ithas descended to our own days, with but little moredeterioration than what has been occasioned by theeffects of time and weather. The tomb itself, which * Vide Monasticon, vol. iii. App. and 280, first edit. THE GRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATOR. 233 is of grey Petworth marble, is designed in a styleexactly corresponding with the rich crosses whichEdward erected in commemoration of his belovedqueen ; but the top is covered with a plate, or table,of gilt copper, on which lies a statue of the deceased,which, also, is of copper, most richly gilt. Each side. of the tomb is divided by small buttresses into sixcompartments, in the pointed style, having angularpediments, ornamented by crockets and finials : theseinclude large shields of arms, sculptured as pendentfrom oak and vine branches, within shallow trefoil-headed recesses. The charges, which are repeated inalternate succession, are those of England, as borneby Henry III. and Edward I. viz. three lions passantguardant; of Castile and Leon, namely, quarterly, firstand fourth, a castle ; second and third, a lion rampant;and of Ponthieu, viz. three bendlets within a table, covering the tomb, is diapered with lo-zenges, containing the ensigns of Castile and Leon ;and on the verge is an embossed inscription, part ofwhich is hidden by the sculptures connected with thechapel of Henry V.; the other part is as follo
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