Westminster Abbey a Short History And Description of the Church And Conventual

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The magnificent funeral was supplied by the Knights Templars, whom Henry first S. B. Bolas & Co. , photo. } THE TOMBS OF EDWARD I. AND HENRY III.
introduced into England. Henry's remains were removed to the present tomb, which was prepared for him by his son Edward I. About the year 1291. Edward probably brought the marbles and porphyry of which the tomb is constructed from France. The resemblances in structure and ornament between Henry's sepulchre and the shrine render it almost certain that
...the same designer and artificers THE CONFESSOR'S CHAPEL. 69 were responsible for both. The tomb consists of two stages in the upper of which the body rests. The place of the feretory in the shrine is taken in the tomb by a recumbent effigy of the king in gilt bronze. This is the work of William Torel, a goldsmith and citizen of London. It is H. N. King, pliolo. ] QUEEN ELEANOR'S TOMB FROM THE AMBULATORY.
a conventionalised figure and not a portrait. Above the tomb is the wooden canopy, which was formerly coloured and gilt.


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