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dc.coverage.spatialSite: London, England, United Kingdomen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1503-1519 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorunknown (British)en_US
dc.date1503-1519en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-21T21:37:25Z
dc.date.available2013-02-21T21:37:25Z
dc.date.issued1503-1519en_US
dc.identifier193278en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1390en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/100608
dc.descriptionDetail, depicting the finials and flying buttress on the apse; In 1503-1509 the early 13th-century Lady Chapel was replaced by a new chapel intended to contain the shrine of the canonized Henry VI together with the tombs of his mother, Catherine of Valois (1401-1437), Henry VII, his wife, Elizabeth of York (d 1503), and his mother, Margaret Beaufort. The campaign for Henry VI's canonization languished, and his body remained buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. The internal elevations of the Westminster chapel were conceived as an enriched version of those of St George's, whereas the apse and radiating chapels consciously echo the setting of Westminster's existing royal saint. The pendant vault over the main vessel is the technical and aesthetic culmination of 150 years of Perpendicular vaulting design. It is the only large-scale example of fan vaulting constructed in the classic ashlar shell technique, and more than any other fan vault it gives the impression of consisting entirely of tracery . The most original part of the chapel is the exterior of the aisles, where the forms of Gothic church architecture are displaced by borrowings from the repertory of palatial architecture: bay windows of complex and varied plan (as at Henry VII's Tower, Windsor Castle) and polygonal turrets (such as occur on numerous Tudor collegiate and palace gate-houses). The building accounts are lost, and opinion is divided as to whether the architect was Robert Vertue I or Robert Janyns. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/15/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumstone; bricken_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectdeath or burialen_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectGothic (Medieval)en_US
dc.subjectPerpendicular Styleen_US
dc.titleWestminster Abbey: Henry VII's Chapelen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-E-L-WA-3-A6en_US
vra.culturalContextBritishen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypesepulchral chapelen_US
vra.worktypeabbey churchen_US
dc.contributor.displayunknown (British)en_US


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