Westminster abbey, its architecture, history and monuments . theKings lifetime. Negotiations betweenHenrys executors, Henry VIII, andTorregiano, seem to have extendedover a considerable period. Morethan one design and estimate of expenseswas prepared and rejected because mis-liked by the young king. The contract for the tomb was finallymade and signed October 12, 1513, threeyears after the death of Henry VII, andthe work must have been finished byJanuary 5, 1519, when Torregiano signedanother contract for the tomb of HenryVIII and Catherine of Aragon, In whichreference Is made to the tomb whic
Westminster abbey, its architecture, history and monuments . theKings lifetime. Negotiations betweenHenrys executors, Henry VIII, andTorregiano, seem to have extendedover a considerable period. Morethan one design and estimate of expenseswas prepared and rejected because mis-liked by the young king. The contract for the tomb was finallymade and signed October 12, 1513, threeyears after the death of Henry VII, andthe work must have been finished byJanuary 5, 1519, when Torregiano signedanother contract for the tomb of HenryVIII and Catherine of Aragon, In whichreference Is made to the tomb which thesame Peter before made and finished forHenry VII: and probably before 1517,when the contract for the altar was madewith Torregiano. Laurence Yumber,who had made an unsuccessful design forthe tomb, seems to have been employed towork with Torregiano, who agreed toperform his task well, surely, cleanly,workmanly, curiously and substantially,and for the sum of £1000, a reduction of£500 from his first demand. The tombfor the Lady Margaret and that for480. Tomb of Henry VII and his Queen rom Neales engraving in 1818, Tomh of Henry VII and His Queen Bishop Young (who had been presentwhen the cornerstone of this chapel waslaid) were probably completed beforethis. No doubt much of the elaborate andbeautiful detail of the tomb and especiallythe effigies and figures, were wrought byTorregianos own hand. The Totnb is a very rich, elaborate,darkly elegant Renaissance table tomb ofblack and white marble, decorated lavishlywith ornaments of gilt bronze, the sidesbeing ornamented with metal wreathswhich enclose groups of bronze bronze effigies of the King and Queenrecline on the rich marble table, the mainstructure being eight feet ten and one-halfinches long: four feet eleven inches high:four feet ten and one-half inches Thurlnglan traveller who saw it in1574 while it was still fresh and new, com-pared It with the monuments to the kingsof France at St. Denis: All th
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