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Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England. Since 1066, it has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British monarchs and a burial site for 18 English, Scottish, and British monarchs.
St Edward the Confessor, the penultimate Anglo-Saxon monarch of England, built a royal palace on Thorney Island just west of the City of London at about the same time as he built Westminster Abbey (1045–1050). Thorney Island and the surrounding area soon became known as Westminster (a portmanteau of the words West Minster). Neither the ...
Westminster Abbey was originally built in 960AD, and is an architectural masterpiece of the 13th and 16th centuries. From its high Gothic vault to the great pavement in front of the High Altar ...
The site of the current palace may have been used by Cnut during his reign from 1016 to 1035, and from c. 1045 – c. 1050 Edward the Confessor built a palace and the first Westminster Abbey. The oldest surviving part of the palace is Westminster Hall, which dates from the reign of William II (r. 1087–1100). The palace was the principal ...
Pendant fan vault of Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey. The Henry VII Chapel is best known for its combination of pendant fan vault ceiling.Andrew Reynolds refers to the vault as “the most perfect example of a pendant fan vault, the most ambitious kind of vaulting current in the perpendicular period.” [11] Notably, this ceiling was also the first to combine pendants with fan vaulting.
Westminster is a cathedral city and the main settlement of the London Borough of the City of Westminster in Central London, England.It extends from the River Thames to Oxford Street and has many famous landmarks, including the Palace of Westminster, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, Trafalgar Square and much of the West End cultural centre including the entertainment ...
Thorney Street Westminster. Thorney Island was the eyot (or small island) on the River Thames, upstream of medieval London, where Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster (commonly known today as the Houses of Parliament) were built. It was formed by rivulets of the River Tyburn, which entered the Thames nearby.
The Building of Westminster Bridge is a 1742 riverscape painting by the English artist Samuel Scott. [1] It depicts the construction of Westminster Bridge across the River Thames in London . Visible on the skyline are St John's, Smith Square , Westminster Hall , Westminster Abbey and the tower St Margaret's .