Image: Reading Abbey (1785)

Description: Identifier: antiquitiesofen01gros (find matches) Title: The antiquities of England and Wales Year: 1785 (1780s) Authors: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791 Subjects: Publisher: London : S. Hooper Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: n the reign of Queen Elizabeth, erected by his lady,who is alfo interred with him: the monument is of alabafter,with pillars of porphyry. Another, within a neat fcreen of brafswork, is erected to the memory of Charles Somerfet, earl of Wor-cefter, and knight of the garter, who died in 1526, and his lady,daughter to William, earl of Huntingdon. A ftately monumentof white marble, erected to the memory of Henry Somerfet, dukeof Beaufort, and knight of the garter, who died in 1699. Thereare here alfo the tombs of Sir George Manners, lord Roos, thatof the lord Haftings, chamberlain to Edward IV. and feveralothers. Before we conclude our account of this ancient chapel, itwill be proper to obferve, that King James II. made ufe of itfor the fervice of popery; and mafs being publicly performedthere, it has ever fince been neglected and fuffered to run to ruin;and being no appendage to the collegiate church waits the royalfavour to retrieve it from the difgrace of its prefent fituation. READING Text Appearing After Image: BERKSHIRE. i3 READING ABBEY. ( Plate I. ) THIS was a mitred parliamentary abbey, and one of the moilconfiderable in England, both for the magnificence of its build-ings and the richnefs of its endowments. King Henry I. beganto lay the foundations anno 1121, having pulled down a fmalldeferted nunnery, by fome faid to have been founded by Elfrida,mother in law of King Edward, called the martyr, in expiationof the murder of that king at Corfe caftle, The new monafterywas completed in four years; but the church was either not con-fecrated till the reign of Henry II. or elfe that ceremony was, forthe fecond time, performed in the year 1163 or 1164, by arch-bifhop Becket, the king and many of the nobility being prefent.It was dedicated to the honour of the Holy Trinity, the BlefledVirgin Mary, and St. John the Evangelift. Browne Willis, fromdivers good authorities and reafons, to thefe adds St. James, ma-king its tutelars ftand in the following order: the Holy Trinity,the Blefled Virgin Mar Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Reading Abbey (1785)
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