Westminster Abbey—historical architectural ground plan—Royal Commission 1924 map
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'Westminster Abbey—Historical Ground Plan'
The first large-scale measured plan of Westminster Abbey and its monastic precinct, surveyed by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in 1921 and published with the Commission’s landmark first London inventory in 1924. The exceptionally detailed plan encompasses the nave, quire, transepts, Henry VII’s Chapel, cloisters, chapter house, Pyx Chapel, refectory, dorter, infirmary, abbot’s lodging, deanery and associated buildings. A colour key distinguishes successive phases of construction from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries and later work. Hatching identifies destroyed fabric, while the ground tint marks structures believed still roofed when the monastery was suppressed in 1540. Scales are given in feet and metres, with a north point and heraldic arms. A foundational modern survey of the Abbey, it remained the standard plan for much of the twentieth century. Colour lithographed by Malby & Sons and issued as the large unnumbered folding plan at the end of the official volume.
Size 64 x 70 cm | 25.0 x 27.5 inches
Date Published: Dated June 1921. Published 1924
Type: Colour architectural cathedral ground plan
Author: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments
Publication: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments
Condition: Good |
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