A GLORIOUS ABBEY.
" Of the incomparable beauty of the Abbey all the world knows. It has the highest nave in England, the most wonderful roof, and some of the loveliest tombs in the world. With 70 Royal graves about them sleep Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots, between them lies the founder of our Tudor dynasty, and at the gate of this wondrous chapel sleeps Henry the Fifth with his Kate beside him at last, after lying in an open coffin for people to see, so that Pepys stooped and kissed her when she had been dead 200 years. In the nave lies the Unknown Warrior between the grave of Livingstone and the monument of Pitt, and off the cloisters is one of the most illustrious secular buildings on the earth, the Chapter House, in which representative government was born." — Mr Arthur Mee.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 147, 9 July 1937, Page 4
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143A GLORIOUS ABBEY. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 147, 9 July 1937, Page 4
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