The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-07
AT THE UNIVERSITY.
Professor Marshalrs Lecture On
Westminster Abbey"

Professor Marshalrs lecture at the
university was very interesting and
better attended than has been any lee
ture of the series. The subject UPON
which the professor spoke was "WeS+~
minister Abbey"
AT o'clock every seat in the lecture
room of the laboratory building was
occupied, all the available chairs were
in use. the steps of the aisles were fill
ed, and the passageways crowded. AS
the lecturer took the stand hearty APP
pause from the large audience greeted
him.
Professor Marshall first outlined the
history of the abbey. The ground upon
which the present building stands is
historic, even before the time of Christ,
a church dedicated to Apollo stood upon
the same site. After the introduction
of Christianity into England, King Sc
bert, the Saxon, erected a church upon
the same site This church was dedi-
Gated to st. Peter about 500 A. D. With
in historic times Edward the Confessor
has been known as the founder of the
abbey. Years before his death, in 1866,
he spent much in erecting the build
ing, parts of which still remain. The
principal parts of the building, as it
stands today, were built by Henry Ill,
Edward l, Henry VII.
eral plan of English churches, COM
menting upon the various portions and
illustrating them by diagrams. In turn
he dealt with the choir. transcripts,
nave and aisles; also with the arches,
triforum and clerestory. The varia-
lions of architecture peculiar to West
minister abbey were then noted and il
Illustrated.
Within the abbey, the professor spoke
of the chapel of Edward the Confessor,
the Oldest part, the resting place of
English kings, where stands the ia
nous coronation chair upon which have
been crowned all English sovereigns
since Edward l. The south transept
contains poets corner. which is adorn-
ed with busts and medallions to Eng
lands greatest men of letters. The
north transept is the resting place of
great statesmen, among whom are Pitt,
Fox and Hastings. In the nave is the
choir, and here also are buried many
men Of renown, among them Robert
Livingston, Major Andre, Wesley and
Watts. Within the chapel of Henry
VII, the newest part of the abbey and
"the most exquisite bit of architecture
| in England" repose the remains of
Henry V, Queen Elizabeth and Mary,
queen az SCOTS.
After the above introduction, the lee
turer threw upon the screen many
beautiful and suggestive pictures Of
various parts of the abbey. Among the
most important of these were general
views Of the exterior and interior,
views OF the nave and choir, of the
poets corner of the rombs of Edward
the Confessor. Elizabeth, Mary, Queen
of Scots, of the princes smothered in
the tower. and of Major Andre. Other
good pictures gave clear ideas of the
coronation chair and the stone of Scone,
the chapel of Henry VII and Jerusalem
chamber.
In conclusion, Professor Marshall
read selections from Washington Irving
and Joseph Addison.
The next lecture of the series will be
delivered next Monday night, by Pro-
fessor Byron Cummings, upon the SUBJ
ject. Six Great Sculptors of Greece"
This lecture also win be fully Illus
trated.