Westminster Abbey & the King's Craftsmen: a Study of Mediaeval Building
Westminster Abbey & the King's Craftsmen: a Study of Mediaeval Building
W R William Richard Lethaby
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This is at least interesting, as giving us the name of the King's most famous master of the works at the Tower, Fig. 37.— Plan of St. Katherine's Chapel An infirmary cloister is mentioned in the thirteenth century. los NORMAN BUILDINGS Fig. 38. — Detail of Arcade of St. Katherine's Chapel the Palace, and Wind- sor. He is elsewhere called IngentatorJ^ Neale says that in the time of Abbot Lawrence stalls are mentioned as being made for the " New Work/' This, Scott supposed, applied to the chapel ...of St. Katherine, but it seems more probable that it was part of a re-arrange- ment of the church con- sequent upon the com- pletion of the nave and the translation of the Confessor's body in 1 163, when, we are told, it was taken out of the earth by Thomas of Canterbury and en- shrined. We may say that the church was finished by 1 163, and that the in- firmary was built about the same time. That the chapel of St. Katherine was the work of Abbot Lawrence seems to be • He was working at the Palace from 9 to 24 Hen.
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