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D.M. Palliser, The Westminster Retable: History, Techniques, Conservation, ed. Paul Binski and Ann Massing
Westminster Abbey Chapter House: The History, Art and Architecture of ‘A Chapter House beyond Compare’, ed. Warwick Rodwell and Richard Mortimer
The Lantern Tower of Westminster Abbey 1060—2010 : Reconstructing its History and Architecture, by Warwick Rodwell, The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVI, Issue 520, June 2011, Pages 648–651, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cer142Close - Share Icon Share
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‘Westminster Abbey is the most complex church in the world in terms of its history, functions and memories’: so begins Richard Jenkyns's splendid little book on the subject (2004), a judgement with which many would agree. It is not surprising that it has generated a vast literature, and Tony Trowles's invaluable bibliography (Westminster Abbey Record Series IV, 2005) lists 3,394 items down to the year 2000. Since then the tally has continued to grow, including the published proceedings of three conferences—on the Cosmati pavements (2002), the Henry VII Lady Chapel (2003; rev. ante, cxx [2005], 129–31), and the Abbey's refounder Edward the Confessor (2009; rev. ante, cxxv [2010], 389–91). All three were edited or part-edited by Richard Mortimer, Keeper of the Abbey's muniments, and it is fitting that he has also edited one of three further volumes reviewed here, jointly with Warwick Rodwell, the Abbey's consultant archaeologist. All three of the volumes reviewed here serve to remind us that we are still far from knowing everything about this astonishing building and its contents.
