South Transept and Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey

South Transept and Poet's Corner

Westminster Abbey

London

Image and text scanned by Nathalie Chevalier.

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Hereby is the monument to William Shakespeare, designed by Kent, and executed by Scheemaker. The figure of the Poet is placed on a pedestal resembling an altar. On the pedestal are the masks of Queen Elizabeth, Henry V., and Richard III.

In the East Aisle of the Poet's Corner is the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer the father of English poetry, it is in the form of an altar-sarcophagus. Above it is a fine stained glass window with scenes from Chaucer's poems, and a likeness of the Poet [text accompanying photograph].

Bibliography

The volume containing these images by an unidentified photographer bears the imprint "With H. and C. F. Feist's compliments" but no name, date, or place of publication, though the Feists were dealers in port wine, and Plate 30 demonstrates that the photograph must have been taken after 1902, and John R. Mendel offers evidence that it dates before mid-1906 [GPL].

Last modified 7 November 2003