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Westminster Abbey Chapter House
Warwick Rodwell
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Description for Westminster Abbey Chapter House
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This volume tells the complete story of the Westminster Abbey chapter house, which ranks as one of the spectacular achievements of European Gothic art and architecture; and that is precisely what its builder, King Henry III, intended. Begun in the mid-1240s, and completed within a decade, its pre-eminence was recognized in its own day, when the chronicler Matthew Paris described Westminster as having 'a chapter house beyond compare'.
Papers by leading scholars in the field of medieval art and architecture reveal the reasons for the construction of ... Read more
This volume tells the complete story of the Westminster Abbey chapter house, which ranks as one of the spectacular achievements of European Gothic art and architecture; and that is precisely what its builder, King Henry III, intended. Begun in the mid-1240s, and completed within a decade, its pre-eminence was recognized in its own day, when the chronicler Matthew Paris described Westminster as having 'a chapter house beyond compare'.
Papers by leading scholars in the field of medieval art and architecture reveal the reasons for the construction of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Society of Antiquaries of London United Kingdom
Number of pages
305
Condition
New
Number of Pages
305
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780854312955
SKU
V9780854312955
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About Warwick Rodwell
Professor Warwick Rodwell, OBE, is Consultant Archaeologist to Westminster Abbey. He is the author of Canterbury Cathedral, Trinity Chapel: The Archaeology of the Mosaic Pavement and Setting of the Shrine of St Thomas Becket (with David Neal, 2022), The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey: The Pavements and Royal Tombs: History, Archaeology, Architecture and Conservation (with David Neal, 2019), and St ... Read more
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