The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries – Westminster Abbey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries – Westminster Abbey write by James Wilkinson. This book was released on . The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries – Westminster Abbey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the biggest change to Westminster Abbey for 250 years, a new museum has been built, accessed by a spectacular new seven storey tower. The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries have been built in the roof space over the side chapels, some sixteen metres above floor level. The Galleries display 300 of the Abbey's treasures, ranging from the historic effigies of past kings and queens to the Duke of Cambridge's marriage licence. In addition, for the first time in 800 years, the public can now see spectacular views of the Abbey from the galleries. This booklet tells the story of the building of the tower and galleries. More than 70 photographs reveal some of the amazing discoveries made during the development, which culminated in the grand opening by Her Majesty the Queen in 2018.
The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries
The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries write by Susan Jenkins. This book was released on 2019-08-13. The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A richly illustrated guide to the treasures in The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries - a new exhibition in Westminster Abbey's never-before-seen roof space. In summer 2018, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries will open in the church's medieval triforium, an internal gallery which runs 70 feet above the floor of the Abbey. Entrance to the space, never before opened to the public, will be through a new tower outside Poets' Corner, opposite the Palace of Westminster. This will be the most significant addition to the Abbey since Nicholas Hawksmoor's iconic towers were completed in 1745. The treasures displayed will reflect the Abbey's rich thousand-year history. The Galleries will also grant magnificent views to Parliament Square and the Palace of Westminster, as well as wonderful vistas across the Abbey, which Betjeman described as "the finest view in Europe". The Galleries mark the final phase of the Abbey's "2020 Vision", which aimed to improve facilities for the Abbey's two million worshippers and visitors. This richly illustrated guide, written by Abbey staff, discusses both the overall themes explored in the exhibition, and a selection of the individual exhibits.Published to coincide with the opening of the Galleries in Summer 2018.
The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbey
The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbey write by Anthony Harvey. This book was released on 2003. The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Westminster Abbey contains a unique and important group of effigies, some familiar, many little-known, including kings, queens, statesmen and national heroes, ranging in time from the middle ages to the early nineteenth century. They derive from a time when an effigy of the dead monarch, statesman or national hero played an important part in funeral ritual, offering a visible likeness as a focus to the ceremonial of the funeral. This richly illustrated book, which is the first substantial publication on the effigies since 1936, is both a history of the collection and of the origins and development of the funeral effigy, and a full descriptive catalogue of the twenty-one examples in the Abbey. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Horrible Histories Special: Cruel Kings and Mean Queens
Horrible Histories Special: Cruel Kings and Mean Queens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Horrible Histories Special: Cruel Kings and Mean Queens write by Terry Deary. This book was released on 2013-06-06. Horrible Histories Special: Cruel Kings and Mean Queens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history book which shows you monarchs as they really were - mad, menacing and murderous! Find out which king died after falling off the toilet, why people thought King John was a werewolf, and why Queen Anne's feet were covered in garlic. Packed with treacherous treason, evil executions and savage struggles for the throne, this is royal history with the nasty bits left in!
The Queen's Hat
The Queen's Hat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Queen's Hat write by Steve Antony. This book was released on 2015-08-25. The Queen's Hat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A wild romp around London as the Queen loses her hat! From Steve Antony, the author and illustrator of PLEASE, MR. PANDA and BETTY GOES BANANAS!A sudden gust of wind sets off a marvelous adventure for the Queen, lots of Queen's men, and one very special hat. Just where will that hat land? Following a hysterical, epic hat chase, the Queen is reunited with her hat -- and the royal baby!Young children will love the search-and-find fun of the story, the hysterical mayhem that breaks loose, and Steve Antony's winning art style. THE QUEEN'S HAT shows some of London's most famous sites, and back matter explains their significance.
