Westminster Abbey A Thousand Years Of National Pageantry Westminster Abbeyjenkyns by Westminster Abbey;jenkyns, Richard 9781846685347, 9781847650825, 1846685346, 1847650821 instant download after payment.

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The Medieval Church; CHAPTER 2 Henry VII's Chapel; CHAPTER 3 Renaissance and Reformation; CHAPTER 4 Death's Palace; CHAPTER 5 From Baroque to Victorian; CHAPTER 6 The Abbey Imagined; CHAPTER 7 The Church in the City; CHAPTER 8 The Nation's Shrine; CHAPTER 9 The Site of Ceremony; CHAPTER 10 The Abbey Now; Further Reading; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Index.;National cathedral', coronation church, royal mausoleum, museum of sculpture, burial place of poets, resting place of the great and of the Unknown Warrior, and recent backdrop to the spectacular funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales - this rich and extraordinary building unites many functions. In terms of those functions, the Abbey is the most complex church in existence - perhaps the most complex of all buildings. It has been abbey, pilgrimage church, cathedral; and it is now a collegiate church and royal peculiar. The foundation document of modern Presbyterianism was written within its walls.