Архитектурные шедевры Великобритании. Рябцева Е.В. - 17 стр.

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the Speaker’s library still survive. His use of gothic forms in metalwork extended from door screw and coat pegs to
gas light fittings, umbrella racks and the elaborate railings round the royal throne.
A particularly sumptuous feature is the original State Bed specially made for the house by Holland and Sons
in 1858 and described in their records as a 'a walnut and gilt Arabian bedstead'. The massive State Bed was
moved out of the building in the 1940s and was presumed lost until it turned up again in a remote Welsh farm-
house. It was carefully restored under the guidance of the Victoria and Albert Museum and has been installed
again in a room in the Speaker’s House. Its existence seems to stem from a fascinating royal tradition that the
monarch slept at the Palace of Westminster on the night before the coronation in Westminster Abbey. As a result
specifications for a State Bedroom were included in the plans for the New Palace, but although the bed was in-
stalled it never fulfilled its honoured purpose.
Answer the following questions.
1. In what way is the Speaker's House used?
2. Do the rooms in the Speaker's House have the modern decorations?
3. What are the main reception rooms in the Speaker's House meant for?
4. What was a royal tradition connected with State Bed? Is this tradition still kept?
PART II
WESTMINSTER ABBEY
WESTMINSTER ABBEY
Words and Expressions
– ancillary – подсобный, дополнительный
– a monk – монах
– to demolish – разрушать
– an apse – полукруглая ниша
– a transept – поперечная часть крестообразной церкви
– choir – хоры
– to consecrate – освящать
– a shrine – гробница
– to dismantle – демонтировать
– a nave – центральная часть церкви от внутренней двери до хоров
Westminster Abbey is one of the most famous, historic and widely visited churches not only in Britain but
in the whole Christian world. There are other reasons for its fame apart from its beauty and its vital role as a
centre of the Christian faith in one of the world's most important capital cities. These include the facts that since
1066 every sovereign apart from Edward V and Edward VIII has been crowned here and that for many centu-
ries it was also the burial place of kings, queens and princes.
The royal connections began even earlier than the present Abbey, for it was Edward the Confessor, some-
times called the last of the English kings (1042 – 1066), canonised in 1163, who established an earlier church
on this site. His great Norman Abbey was built close to his palace on Thorney Island. It was completed in 1065
and stood surrounded by the many ancillary buildings needed by the community of Benedictine monks who

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