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The Chapter House – Detail
Comments Off CherryPie on Jun 24th 2013
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The Chapter House
I enjoyed my recent visit to Westminster Abbey. One of the things that particularly caught my attention was the painting of Queen Elizabeth II which was displayed in the Chapter House. The artist Ralph Heimans painted the portrait during the Queen’s Jubilee year:
THE CORONATION THEATRE: PORTRAIT OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Ralph Heimans (2012)
Oil on [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 22nd 2013
The chapter house was built in around 1140, this is the place where the monks and the prior met each morning to discuss priory business and to issue punishments for disobedience. Inside the guidebook is a lovely reconstruction of how the inside may have looked in the fourteenth century. All the arcading and [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Sep 14th 2010
