Архитектурные шедевры Великобритании. Рябцева Е.В. - 54 стр.

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premises above mentioned; but which being built in Sheet-Street, it is said to be in contemplation, to appropri-
ate the aforementioned Spot to the building of houses, for seven additional Poor Knights.
The apartments in the deanery, which were considerably repaired by the late Dean Keppel, are large and
commodious, and in the great passage leading to an apartment called the garter-room, are hung up the arms of
the Sovereign and knights companions, of the Garter.
In this room is an ancient screen, on which are properly blazoned the arms of King Edward III, and the
several sovereigns and knights companions, from the foundation to the present time.
In this room the knights meet and robe on the morning of installation, and proceed from hence to St
George's Chapel.
In the inner cloisters are the houses of the several prebendaries, and at the lower end is the library belong-
ing to the college; the inside of which is neat, though not elegant. It is well furnished with ecclesiastical writers,
and books of polite literature, and received a considerable addition from the late Earl of Ranelagh, who be-
queathed his valuable library to the college. The houses command a most beautiful prospect of the River
Thames, and of the adjoining counties.
Opposite the west end of the Chapel of St George, are the houses of the minor canons, and clerks, or cho-
risters, built in the form of a horse–shoe, in allusion to one of the badges of Henry VII or his predecessor, King
Edward IV and commonly called the Horseshoe Cloisters.
THE CHAPEL OF ST GEORGE
Words and Expressions
– to esteem – оценивать, считать, рассматривать
– a pillar – столб, колонна
– a rib – ребро
– a groin – ребро крестового свода
– extinct – вымерший, пресекшийся (о роде), устаревший, вышедший из употребления
This Royal Chapel is situated on the same site on which before stood a Chapel erected by King Henry I and
dedicated to Edward the Confessor. The present Chapel was built by Edward III in the year 1337, a short time
after the foundation of the College of the new established Order of the Garter; but King Edward IV, not esteem-
ing the fabric sufficiently large and stately, improved the structure, and designed the present building, together
with the houses of the Dean and Canons; and it was afterwards greatly improved, by Henry VII and Henry VIII.
The inside of this Chapel is universally admired for its neatness and gothic magnificence; the stone roof is
esteemed a most excellent piece of workmanship; it is an ellipse, supported by pillars of ancient gothic archi-
tecture, whose ribs and groins sustain the whole ceiling with admirable beauty and elegance. Every part of this
lofty ceiling has a different device, executed to great perfection; as the arms of Edward the Confessor, Edward
III, Edward the Black Prince, Henry VI, Edward, Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII. Also the arms of
France and England quarterly, the Holy Cross, the shield or cross of St George, the rose, portcullis, lion ram-
pant, unicorn, fleur de lis, dragon, prince's feathers, etc, also the arms of Bourchier, Stafford, Hastings, Beau-
fort, Manners, and other noble families.
It would but tire the reader to give a description of the various devices, and different representations that
are on the several parts of the ceiling.
I shall therefore only further point out to him, that in the nave or centre arch, are curiously designed and bla-
zoned, the arms of Henry VIII, sovereign, and the several knights companions of the Garter, anno 1528, among
which are the arms of Charles V, Emperor of Germany, Francis I, King of France, Ferdinand, Infanta of Spain
and King of the Romans. The arms of the other knights companions; with those of the prelate, are regularly dis-
posed. From the year 1776 to 1789, this beautiful Chapel was thoroughly repaired; the centre and side aisles,
new paved with Painswick stone, the columns sides and ceiling cleaned; and the several arms already men-
tioned, painted, and properly emblazoned. The expenses of the repairs and additions to this Chapel, during the
last mentioned period, amount to upwards of £20,000.
Previous to this, a ground plan of the whole, i.e., of the grave stones was taken, in order to ascertain on any
future occasion, the respective situations of the reliques which they once covered; but as many of these records
of the dead, were greatly defaced by time, and the families to which others related being extinct, none but those
that are most entire, or that belong to the most eminent persons, have been preserved. These are indifferently
placed between the pillars that divide the centre from the side aisles; and in the centre of the aisles on each side
the choir.

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