Title & Author:

Westminster Abbey : the Lady Chapel of Henry VII / edited by Tim Tatton-Brown and Richard Mortimer.

Publication:

Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2003.

Description:

366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The monks of Westminster and the old Lady chapel / Barbara Harvey -- The musicians and liturgy of the Lady chapels of the monastery church, c.1235-1540 / Roger Bowers -- God save the King! Piety, propaganda, and the perpetual memorial / Margaret Condon -- The last will of Henry VII: document and text / Margaret Condon -- The functional design of Henry VII's chapel: a reconstruction / Christopher Wilson -- The building history of the Lady chapels / Tim Tatton-Brown -- An archaeological survey of the vaults of Henry VII's chapel / Andrew Reynolds -- The roofs of Henry VII's chapel / Julian Munby -- The structure of the high vault of Henry VII's chapel / Jacques Heyman -- The Henry VII chapel stalls and their eighteenth-century re-modelling / Charles Tracy -- An appendix on the carpentry of the stalls / Julian Munby -- 'The singuler mediacion and praiers of al the holie companie of Heven': sculptural functions and forms in Henry VII's chapel / Philip Lindley -- The royal, the great, and the good: the history of the later monuments / John Physick -- Henry VII chapel: the royal connection / Thomas Cocke -- The earlier restorations / Tim Tatton-Brown and Richard Mortimer -- Restoring the chapel, 1991-6 / Donald Buttress.

Summary:

"The Lady Chapel constructed at the expense of Henry VII at Westminster Abbey is the last great masterpiece of English medieval architecture, and the culminating achievement of over three hundred years of development in the gothic style, at the point where it interested with the new movements of the Renaissance. This new book covers all the most important aspects of the Chapel's history, from the establishment of the cult of the Virgin in the twelfth century to the restoration of the 1990s, which provided an unrepeatable opportunity for close examination of the structure and contents of the building which is the subject of this volume."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

184383037X (Hardback ; alk. paper)
9781843830375 (Hardback ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509.
Henry VII's Chapel (Westminster Abbey) History.
Westminster Abbey. Lady Chapel of Henry VII.
Henry VII's Chapel (Westminster Abbey)
Architecture, Gothic Conservation and restoration England London.
Architecture gothique Conservation et restauration Angleterre Londres.
Architecture, Gothic Conservation and restoration
Buildings
Westminster Abbey.
Kapellen (bouwkunst)
Gotiek.
Architecture, Gothic Great Britain Conservation and restoration.
London (England) Buildings, structures, etc.
England London
London Westminster Abbey.
Chapels. Westminster Abbey

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Tatton-Brown, T. W. T.
Mortimer, Richard, 1949-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231591
Call No.: NA5470.W5 W38 2003
Status: Available