LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Westminster Abbey: Henry Viii
built 278 days ago
While Westminster Abbey was closed for renovation prior to the 1911 coronation of George V, Country Life magazine commissioned the legendary Frederick Henry Evans to photograph its interior. Remarkable for its purity of line and mastery of light, space, and composition, this image now resides in the archives of the Royal Photographic Society, whose embossed seal is on each print. Framed in wood under Plexiglas®, 17" x 20".
Source:
Westminster Abbey was seized by Henry VIII in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1534, and closed in 1540. The expression "robbing Peter to pay Paul" may arise from this period when money meant for the abbey, which was dedicated to St. Peter, was diverted to the treasury of St. Paul's Cathedral.
Source:
Nearly every figure in English history has left his or her mark on Westminster Abbey. Edward the Confessor founded the Benedictine abbey in 1065 on this spot overlooking Parliament Square. The first English king crowned in the Abbey may have been Harold, in January 1066. The man who defeated him at the Battle of Hastings later that year, William the Conqueror, had the first recorded coronation in the Abbey on Christmas Day that same year. The coronation tradition has continued to the present day. The essentially early-English Gothic structure existing today owes more to Henry III's plans than to those of any other sovereign, although many architects, including Wren, have contributed to the Abbey.
Source:
Since William the Conqueror was crowned in Westminster Abbey in 1066, and, with the exceptions of Kings Edward V (1483) and Edward VIII (1936), all coronations have taken place there. Most recently the funeral of Princess Diana was held at the Abbey in September 1997, although she was buried at Althrop, her family home in Northamptonshire.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Henry Viii