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Nicholas Litlyngton was Abbot of Westminster from 1362-1386 and was buried in the chapel of St Blaise in Westminster Abbey. This chapel was the southern section of what is now Poets' Corner.The only ...
Sir George Villiers and his wife Mary Countess of Buckingham have a white marble monument with effigies in the chapel of St Nicholas in Westminster Abbey. Mary died on 19th April 1632 and was buried a ...
Elizabeth Woodville and the Chapel of St Erasmus at Westminster Abbey. Journal of the British Archaeological Association , 2022; 175 (1): 235 DOI: 10.1080/00681288.2022.2101237 Cite This Page : ...
Experts have reconstructed the appearance of the chapel of St Erasmus — a lost, mediaeval period feature of Westminster Abbey that was used as a Royal burial site. Thought to have been built ...
Everything to know about Westminster Abbey, the historic church that's hosted royal coronations, weddings and funerals — including King Charles' May 6 coronation ...
In 1560, Elizabeth I made Westminster Abbey a “royal peculiar,” a church directly under a monarch’s, not a bishop’s, control, and renamed it the Collegiate Church of St. Peter. It remains ...