A Religious Building:

Westminster Abbey
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

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INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT: ORAL PRESENTATION (PART 1)
LECTURER: PERSIS RODRIGUES
SUBMISSION DATE: 19th January, 2016 (Tuesday)
PRESENTATION DATE: 19th January, 2016 (Tuesday)
Prepared by: Ho Zi Yan 0323698

Westminster Abbey

Historical Background
In 1050, when King
Edward The Confessor
decided to build a
monastery.
A small part of this
Norman monastery,
consecrated in 1065,
survived.
The Bayeux Tapestry was
the only representation

 Most of the present building dates from 1245 to 1272

when Henry III decided to rebuild the abbey in the
Gothic style.
The Chapel of Henry VII was added between 1503 and
1512

 The two West Front Towers date

from 1745.

 The youngest part of the abbey is the North entrance,

completed in the nineteenth century.

Structure
The apse with radiating
chapels

 Large rose
windows

 Flying
buttresses

 High roof

 Long nave and broad

transepts

Ornamentation

Sculpture / statues

 Purbeck marble for the

columns

Materials
Marble

Limestone

Sandstone

References
JAMES STEVENS CURL. "radiating chapels." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape
Architecture. 2000. Retrieved January 18, 2016 from Encyclopedia.com:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-radiatingchapels.html
Westminster abbey. (n.d.). Retrieved January 19, 2016, from
http://www.aviewoncities.com/buildings/london/westminsterabbey.htm
Westminster Abbey. (n.d.). Retrieved January 19, 2016, from
http://tudorhistory.org/places/westabbey/
Westminster Abbey: The church building. (n.d.). Retrieved January 19, 2016, from
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol3/pp411-431