The Lantern Tower of Westminster Abbey, 1060-2010 by Rodwell, Warwick -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword Acknowledgements 1: Westminster Abbey: the Crossing 2: Edward the Confessor’s Crossing Tower and Lantern 3: Henry III’s Unfinished Crossing Tower

What form of Crossing Tower was envisaged? Existing Evidence How much of the Lantern Tower was actually built? Gaining Access to the Lantern Stage

4: The Late Medieval Stone and Timber Lantern

The Evidence of the Drawing in the Islip Roll Access to the Lantern Stage

5: The Disappearance of the Medieval Lantern

The Fate of the Lantern Tower Early Views of the Abbey The Earliest Architects’ Drawings

6: Sir Christopher Wren’s Ambitious Tower and Spire

The First Report on the Fabric, 1713 Structural Strengthening to Support a Tower William Dickinson’s Contribution

7: Begun, but still Incomplete: Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Crossing Tower and Spire

The Hawksmoor Drawings Repairing the Damaged Medieval Crossing Hawksmoor’s Model of the Crossing Construction of the New Lantern Tower Begins Work Stops for the Coronation, 1727 Executing Hawksmoor’s Final Design Bowed Legs and Rent Fabric The Crucial Evidence of Pietro Fabris The Mysterious Woodperry House Painting

8: James Wyatt and the Fire of 1803

The Lantern Burns, July 1803 Wyatt’s Reconstruction

9: Sir George Gilbert Scott and ‘some ameliorations in the Lantern’ 10: The Early Twentieth Century, World War II, and the Aftermath

Fire-Bombed, May 1941 Patching up the Lantern Dykes Bower and the Crossing Tower: An Unfulfilled Desire?

11: New Surveys of the Crossing and Lantern, 2009–10 12: Summary and Conclusions Appendix: Function and Variety in Early Crossing Towers and their Superstructures

Late Antiquity The Early Middle Ages The Later Middle Ages Conclusions

Notes and References Index