Identifier: westminsterabbey02prat (find matches)
Title: Westminster abbey, its architecture, history and monuments
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Pratt, Helen Marshall
Subjects: Westminster Abbey Great Britain -- Kings and rulers
Publisher: New York : Duffield & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
terior of the chapter house andthe north ambulatory: it has Perpendicu-lar tracery of beautiful design and somefragments of its original glass. The Statuary at the east end includesfigures of St. Laurence, with a book rest-ing on a gridiron, the emblem of his mar-tyrdom: St. Armagillus, and St. Guthlac,who lived in the Fen Country. He wearsthe dress of a hermit with a priests chasu-ble and knights gauntlets, and a dragon isseen at his feet.* On the south side of the aisle the backsof the choir stalls are seen, those at thewest being still entire, while the othershave been cut in two and deprived of theirnorthern faces in order, as we have alreadyseen, to furnish fronts for additional stallsat the east. Three small Consecration Crosses arepainted on the north wall: one is at the *A history of this saint was written by one ofhis contemporaries named Felix. A parchment rollin the British Museum dating from the twelfth cen-tury, gives his life in a series of beautiful outlinedrawings. 548
Text Appearing After Image:
cs^

Note About Images