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*WESTMINSTER ABBEY Tatyana Zhmak 3 -1

* Westminster area is also called the City of Westminster. It is the most important part of London. * Westminster Abbey is regard as center of this area. They say, the City was founded here near the monastery as far back as the 7 th century. *

*In the 11 th century King Edward the Confessor decided to build a great abbey church there. It was a monastery for a long time.

*William the Conqueror was crowned there and since then many kings and queens of England followed this tradition. *There is the ancient Coronation Chair beneath which there is the Stone of Scone.

*Many English kings and queens and other famous statesmen, writers, scientist are buried in Westminster Abbey. Among them there are two queens rivals Elizabeth I Tudor and Mary Stuart, Oliver Cromwell, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. *It is famous for the Poet’s Corner, where most popular writers ( Kipling, Chaucer, Hardly, Dickens), poets and musicians are buried.

*Retable (England's oldest altarpiece) *Brasses (A brass consists of engraved metal plates, shaped and cut to fit into a matrix prepared for them on a tomb) *Wall paintings ( The most important wall paintings in the Abbey the figure of St Faith in her chapel and the figures of Christ with St Thomas and St Christopher in the south transept) *Cosmati pavement (The great pavement in front of the High Altar of Westminster Abbey is a unique and remarkable object) *

* * The present building dates mainly from the reign of King Henry III. In 1245 he pulled down the eastern part of the 11 th century Abbey, which had been founded by King Edward the Confessor and dedicated in 1065. Earlier in Henry's reign, on 16 May 1220, he had laid the foundation stone for a new Lady Chapel at the east end of the Confessor's church, but as the Abbey's own financial resources were not sufficient to continue the rebuilding of the whole church at this time no other work was carried out.

* 1. North transept 2. High Altar 3. Quire 4. Shrine of St Edward the Confessor 5. Henry VII's Lady Chapel 6. Poets' Corner 7. St Faith's Chapel 8. Great Cloister 9. Chapter House 10. Pyx Chamber 11. Museum 12. Little Cloister 13. St Catherine's Chapel Garden 14. College Garden 15. Nave 16. Shop = Ambulatory chapels Islip Chapel of St John the Baptist Chapel of St Paul Chapel of St Nicholas Chapel of St Edmund Chapel of St Benedict

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