. Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of highly-finished engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions of such objects in the metropolis and the surrounding country as are most remarkable for antiquity, architectural grandeur, or picturesque beauty. VOL. II. WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Of the Inscription on the architrave the following is legible : Omni . .Insignis : ViRTUTEM : Laudibus : Heros : Sanctus Edward . . Onthe south side, Die . . On the east end, . . Moriens .... 1065 Super -^thera Scandit .... Sursum Corda . I
. Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of highly-finished engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions of such objects in the metropolis and the surrounding country as are most remarkable for antiquity, architectural grandeur, or picturesque beauty. VOL. II. WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Of the Inscription on the architrave the following is legible : Omni . .Insignis : ViRTUTEM : Laudibus : Heros : Sanctus Edward . . Onthe south side, Die . . On the east end, . . Moriens .... 1065 Super -^thera Scandit .... Sursum Corda . I. A. on the north side.—^Thus translated : The hero renowned for all virtues. Saint Edward the Confessor and venerable king, Dying the 5th of January, ascended to the skies. Lift up your hearts 1 « He died Anno Domini THE CHAPEL OP HENRY THE SEVENTH (Nearly the rival in elegance with that of Kings College, Cambridge) standson the site of a still more ancient chapel dedicated to the Virgin. Henry findingthe chapel of the Confessor too much crowded to receive any more princes,determined on the building of this, which, it appears by his will, he expresslyintended as the mausoleum of him and his house, and prohibited all but theblood royal from being interred within its precincts. Abbot Islip on the partof the king laid the first stone on February 1 Ith, 1503. WESTMINSTER ABBEY. The ascent from the Abbey is formed by a magnificent flight of twelvesteps, over which rises a most beautiful arch of the same width as the nave orbody of the chapel. Unfortunately it has very little light. The capitals of thepillars on the western side have a bear and staff, a greyhound and dragon onthem : the angles on the sides of the great arches have the Icings arms withinquatrefoils, and those of the two sides his badges.
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