Westminster Abbey


A Topographical and Statistical description of the County of Middlesex ,etc (1810) by George Alexander Cooke

To the west of the Old Palace Yard, and nearly opposite the House of Commons stands the conventual church of St. Peter, commonly known by the name of Westminster Abbey; this is one of the noblest specimens of Gothic architecture which our island can boast, not excepting even the far-famed chapel of King's College, Cambridge, nor the venerable church of St. Mary Redcliffe, at Bristol. The church was founded, we are told, about 610 by Sebert, king of the East Saxons, upon the ruins of a temple of Apollo, destroyed, according to tradition, by an earthquake. This new church was dedicated to St. Peter, who was so pleased, they tell us, with the performance, that, attended with an host of celestial choristers, he descended in person to save Militus, the bishop, the trouble of consecration.

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Quotations
 Chapter 22 
“My dear child, commend Dr. Grant to the deanery of Westminster or St. Paul’s, and I should be as glad of your nurseryman and poulterer as you could be. But we have no such people in Mansfield. What would you have me do?”
 Chapter 48 
After what had passed to wound and alienate the two families, the continuance of the Bertrams and Grants in such close neighbourhood would have been most distressing; but the absence of the latter, for some months purposely lengthened, ended very fortunately in the necessity, or at least the practicability, of a permanent removal. Dr. Grant, through an interest on which he had almost ceased to form hopes, succeeded to a stall in Westminster, which, as affording an occasion for leaving Mansfield, an excuse for residence in London, and an increase of income to answer the expenses of the change, was highly acceptable to those who went and those who staid.
 

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