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3 giorni fa · The Chapel of the Order is the Henry VII Lady Chapel in Westminster Abbey. The Sovereign, Great Master, and the Knights and Dames Grand Cross are allotted stalls in the choir of the chapel, above which their heraldic devices are displayed.
3 giorni fa · Edward was buried in the Henry VII Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey on 8 August 1553, with reformed rites performed by Thomas Cranmer. The procession was led by "a grett company of chylderyn in ther surples" and watched by Londoners "wepyng and lamenting"; the funeral chariot, draped in cloth of gold, was topped by an effigy of Edward, with ...
2 giorni fa · 1470 Lady Chapel rebuilt by Abbot Hanley; completed by Abbot Farley (1472–98). 1540 Dissolution of the abbey. 1541 Refounded as a cathedral by Henry VIII. 1616–1621 William Laud holds the office of Dean of Gloucester; 1649–1660 Abolition of dean and chapter, reinstated by Charles II; 1666 Installation of Great Organ by Thomas ...
1 giorno fa · Leaving the Chapel of St. Nicholas, we at once pass into the stately portico of the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary, commonly called Henry VII.'s Chapel. The portico is beneath the oratory or chantry of Henry V., which forms an arch across the aisle directly east of his tomb.
4 giorni fa · The last major work on the church was the lady chapel, which replaced that of the earlier 13th century; it was begun under Richard Hanley, abbot 1458–72, and completed under his successor William Farley (d. 1498). A tall and richly vaulted building of five bays, it has small flanking chapels.
4 giorni fa · Henry VII’s parliaments admirably failed, by that measure, and Dr Cavill finds few signs of royal managerial control. By 1497 six of the seven parliaments had been called because continued rebellions had created no-choice needs for extraordinary revenues and for remedies for numerous pent-up grievances from the Yorkist era.
5 giorni fa · From the accession of Henry VII. to the death of Henry VIII. The battle at Bosworth finally decided the disputes between the houses of York and Lancaster, in which so much English blood had been shed. Henry VII. was the victorious representative of the house of Lancaster, and the male heirs of Edward IV. being now dead, he united the claims of ...
