Westminster Abbey: Royal Tombs

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In Imperial London, 1901, Arthur H. Beavan continued his overview of Westminster Abbey with this description of its royal tombs:

There are many Westminster Abbey tombs to keep you occupied - if you are interested in royalty, the Abbey holds the graves of British Kings and Queens galore, up to the time of, and including, King George the Second and his consort.

There are tombs of princes, princesses, and princelings; royal dukes and duchesses, and in the chantries notable peers and peeresses, abbots, bishops, earls, and countesses, providing any amount of matter upon which to moralize over the fleeting nature of rank and grandeur.

"All things have rest and ripen towards the grave;
In silence ripen, fall and cease."

Try to recall the burning words of eloquence from yonder pulpit, echoed back throughout the generation!

Are you a student of politics? Then in Westminster Abbey's north transept, or "Statesmen's Corner," you may bring to mind the chequered careers of nearly all our illustrious prime ministers of the past, and their colleagues, from Chatham to Gladstone.

Of jurists, however, Westminster Abbey holds only two, the famous Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, and Sir William Follett, most gifted of Attorney-Generals, both resting close together in the north transept.

If the "pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war," or the noble deeds of our navy fascinate you, Westminster Abbey has memorials in every direction of military heroes and gallant seamen.

Next: The burial place of the great Henry Purcell: Musicians' Corner