Since medieval times, great figures in British history have been buried in Westminster Abbey with fine monuments built to their memory. These include Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, Gladstone, Disraeli and Canning, poets and musicians such as Shakespeare, Milton, Handel and Purcell, and a great many distinguished generals and admirals. This guide to the Abbey starts at the main entrance and conducts the reader around the Abbey in a clockwise direction. Examples of medieval, Tudor and Victorian work are included, but the book concentrates on the 17th and 18th centuries when monumental sculpture reached its apogee with artists such as Rysbrack, Roubiliac, Nollekens and Flaxman.
- ISBN10 0719546869
- ISBN13 9780719546860
- Publish Date 13 April 1989
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 12 June 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Imprint John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English