Here is an informative site about the history and development of the Palace of Westminster, with LOTS of illustrations as to what, where, when and by whom. Recommended.
[…] Archaeologists still argue about the exact route of the River Tyburn but it is agreed that it flowed from the Hampstead Hills, across Regents Park to form an eyot which was called Thorney Island whereupon stood Westminster Abbey and the old Palace of Westminster. […]
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[…] day the court went in procession from the Tower to Westminster, the Queen dressed in white cloth of gold of damask, with a mantle of the same furred with ermine. […]
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[…] while researching the Painted Chamber of Westminster Palace, with particular reference to the “Good Parliament” of 1376, I couldn’t help […]
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[…] Archaeologists still argue about the exact route of the River Tyburn but it is agreed that it flowed from the Hampstead Hills, across Regents Park to form an eyot which was called Thorney Island whereupon stood Westminster Abbey and the old Palace of Westminster. […]
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[…] not heard. It was also known as the Octave of St Edward the Confessor, and is still celebrated at Westminster Abbey, as the above link will tell […]
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[…] Westminster Abbey has also been proposed and is, of course, where so many of our monarchs are buried. However, we know from consultation with the previous dean for the Looking For Richard Project that the abbey is full and Henry would be unable to receive a tomb monument if reburied here. He would, however, be able to receive a brass plaque somewhere in the floor. Perhaps, therefore, taking on board all the above, the king’s own wishes for his burial location should be uppermost in our minds in this regard. […]
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[…] For reasons at the time best known to herself, Elizabeth skedaddled over the road to sanctuary at Westminster Abbey, taking her remaining and no doubt confused children as well as her, probably unconfused mother, […]
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[…] Angel – one of four. Westminster Abbey. Described as ‘supreme examples of English medieval art’. From ‘The Glory of Westminster […]
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[…] photographs. The other royal peculiar which immediately leaps to Ricardian minds is, of course, Westminster Abbey…which harbours That […]
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[…] In 1483, the 13 year old Edward was given a great honour. He attended the Coronation of Richard III and carried the crown of Queen Anne in the procession into Westminster. […]
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[…] the 13th century, most of the present Covent Garden area was land belonging to Westminster Abbey which included a walled vegetable garden tended by the […]
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[…] Thomas was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey, where his tomb can still be […]
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[…] monument that cost a small fortune whereas the grave of Anne, who was buried in Westminster Abbey ‘with honours no less than befitted the burial of a queen’ , is lost and unmarked […]
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[…] for a hearing, he compounded the crime not only by assaulting Isabel on her arrival by boat at the palace of Westminster, but also, and in sight of such reliable witnesses as the justices of the court of common pleas, by […]
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[…] is composed of clay and the bridge slowly began to sink, to be closed at about the time the nearby Palace of Westminster burned down in 1834. Parliament was rebuilt in a majestic Gothic style and the new iron bridge, […]
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[…] with assent of parliament, for the credit of the city of London and of other places between the palace of Westminster and the Tower of London and to avoid pollution of the air there, that all unclean entrails, issues […]
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[…] of pennies, minted by William of Gloucester with African gold. It features the Great Pavement of Westminster Abbey, which he updated, and was sold at auction for […]
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[…] was the careless disposal of tally sticks in a furnace; the result was a conflagration that changed Westminster forever. Now we have Pugin’s great […]
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[…] months, and six days, and thereof reigned two and twenty years, one month, and eight days, died at Westminster the ninth day of […]
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[…] 1483 Edward IV died unexpectedly at his palace of Westminster. His Queen, Elizabeth Wydeville, and her Wydeville family were immediately galvanised into […]
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[…] The Thames was the highway of London until quite recent times. In the medieval period, it was a very busy waterway, with skiffs and other small vessels performing the task of today’s black cabs. Most people hired one to go wherever they wished, but the nobility, of course, had elegant and richly decorated private barges. Many of the latter craft were always to be found upriver at Westminster Palace. […]
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