The Topeka state journal., 1921-06-18


lar style and some of the pictures of
the patriarchs are found in the win
dow in Georgian glass. Members of the
| wing party are represented by monu-
ments in the northwest tower. The
Baptistery was at one time in the
| southwest tower When Henry Wis
| chapel was erected, a gallery at the
| west of the south aisle was also put
| Pew" Poets Corner is in the south
| transept. Entrance to the Chapel St.
Faith is gained thru the south wall.
In this chapel are many ancient paint
| ings, including those of the Cruel
| fixion, ST. Faith, and a kneeling
monk, At the altar and reredos is a
| mosaic of the Last Supper. Abbot
Ware brought the pavement from
| Rome in 1868. In the south ambula-
tory are three chapels dedicated to SIS.
Chape1s dedicated to IS. Paul. John
Baptist, Erasmus and Abbot Islip will
be found in the north ambulatory. In
the east part of the north transept
are chapels of SIS. John the Evangelist,
Michael and Andrew.
A number of buildings of great in
terest surround the abbey which in
cludes the Chapter House built in 1850
by Henry III. Many old paintings are
seen here, one of which represents the
Kings Buried There.
buried in Westminster Abbey: Siebert,
King of the East Saxons; Edward the
Confessor; Henry III; Edward 1; Ed
ward III; Richard II; Henry v; Ed
ward V; Henry VII; Edward VI;
James I; Charles II; William III and
George II. The list of monuments:
In Sir Edwards Chapel. Edward the
Confessor; Henry III; Henry v; Ed
ward III; Edward 1; Eleanor of Cas-
tile, Queen Philippa, Richard II and
Queen. Queen Edith and Queen Ma
tilda (good Queen Maud) are buried
here. Henry WIS chapel Mary
Queen of Scots, Queens Elizabeth and
Mary, Henry VII and his queen. In
the Stuart vault are buried: Elizabeth,
Queen of Bohemia and Prince Rupert; |
Lady Arabella Stuart; Anne Hyde and
several royal children. In the Royal
Vault are buried: Charles II. Queen
Mary II, William III, Queen Anne, and !
Prince George of Denmark. Under
the nave of the chapel are buried: |
George II and Caroline of Anspach; |
VI. In divers Vault were |
buried Cromwell and other
only body remaining undisturbed is
Elizabeth Claypole, daughter of the
Protector. The bones supposed to be
those of Edward V and the Duke of
York are also here. In this chapel.
and George Villiers, Duke of
are also DuTlSQ-
ments in the nave and choir are:
Charles James Fox, Henry Fox, Lord
Maj. Gen. Charles George
Gordon, bronze bust; William Pitt.
In the Baptistery: William Wads
worth, seated statue; John Keble.
Dust; Charles Kingsley, bust; Mat
-hew Arnold, bust; DR.. T. Arnold,
bust; nave and choir, William Con-
sreve; Major John Andre; Charles
Robert Darwin, medallion portrait;
Sir John Herschell. buried next to
Darwin Ben johnson, buried here, /,
in Poets Corner; Sir
Charles Lyeil, bust; Sir Isaac Newton
Without monum ent, David Livingstone,
Robert Stephenson, Dean Trench, and
Sir George Gilbert Scott; with monu-
nent or bust. Lord Lawrence. bust,
Sir James Outram, Ia bas-relief ofI
Relief of Lucknow Colin Campbell,
Charles Wesley; Admiral Sir Cloudes-
ey Shovel; Sir Godfrey Kneller, the
'nly painter commemoratedi in the alb
'ey; William Wilberforce, seated fig
Ire; Henry Purcell, tablet: Sir Will !
lam Sterndale Bennett North tran
ept, William Pitt. Earl of Chatham;
Tiscount Palmerson. statue; Sir Rob
.rt Peel, statue; Lord Beaconsfie1d
tatue; Gladstone (No monument yet
rected); Warren Hastings. (buried
lseWhere); Richard Golden, bust,
buried elsewhere). Poets Corner,
ohm Dryden. bust; Henry WadsworthI
4ongfellow, bust; Abraham Cowley;
ieoffrey Chaucer; Lord Tennyson,
'ust; Robert Browning, (no monu-I
nen); Michael Drayton; Ben john
On, monument bears same inscription |
s stone above grave; Edmund Spen-
er; Samuel Butler, (buried else
7here); John. Milton; Thomas Gray
buried elsewhere); Matthew Prior:I
'homas Campbell: Robert Southey,I
ust. (buried elsewhere); S. TaylorI
'oleridge, bust, (buried elsewhere);I
William Shakespeare. Robert Burns.
ust, (burfed elsewhere); James
thompson, (buried elsewhere); John
ray, Oliver Goldsmith, medallion,
buried elsewhere); Sir w. Scott, John
euskin, medallion; George Frederick
Landel. statue; Jenny Lind Cold
chmidt, portrait head; W. MakepeaceI
hackeray, bust, (buried elsewhere);I
oseph Addison, (buried in Henryi
lis Chapel; Lord Macaulay, bust;
VILLAIN Camden; David Garrick, FULL
9ngth figure. Among the buried inI
oets Corner without monuments are:1
ir John and Francis Beaumont; SirI
ohm Denhan, DR.. Samuel Johnson,
monument at st. Paul's); Richardf
rinsley Sheridan, Charles Dickens,
Ir William Davenant, Richard Hak-I