Westminster Abbey, London
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 746155.12
Summary
Postcard - Westminster Abbey, London. On the back, printed in black ink, at the top of the card in the centre reads 'POST CARD', beneath this a short horizontal line, attached to a vertical line divides the card down the centre. To the left of this reads 'This space may be Used for Correspondence, except for Posting Abroad', and to the right 'The Address Only to be Written here'. In the top right hand corner is a box for a postage stamp. Westminster Abbey began as a Benedictine monastery in 960.AD establishing a tradition of daily worship which continues to this day.The Abbey has been the coronation church since 1066 and is the final resting place of seventeen monarchs. The present church, begun by Henry III in 1245, is one of the most important Gothic buildings in the country, with the medieval shrine of an Anglo-Saxon saint still at its heart. A treasure house of paintings, stained glass, pavements, textiles and other artefacts, Westminster Abbey is also the place where some of the most significant people in the nation's history are buried or commemorated. Taken as a whole the tombs and memorials comprise the most significant single collection of monumental sculpture anywhere in the United Kingdom.
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to The National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.