Westminster Abbey: The Lady Chapel of Henry VII edited by T. Tatton-Brown and Richard Mortimer (2003) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. Inventory ...

The Lady Chapel. Further reading. Visit our Royalty page to see a full list of Royal tombs at Westminster Abbey. Westminster Abbey: The Lady Chapel of Henry VII [for tombs in this chapel], edited by T ...

The Henry VII chapel at Westminster Abbey (Picture: Getty) Before that, however, a new addition to the Abbey was built – the Lady chapel. Ordered by King Henry VII, first of the Tudor monarchs ...

Since the year 1066, Westminster Abbey has been the site of coronations, 16 royal weddings, and countless funerals; 30 kings and queens are among the 3,300 buried there.

Above: Their tomb effigies at Westminster Abbey. Colorized view of the chapel and tomb of King Henry VII in Westminster Abbey, United Kingdom, 1922.

The tomb of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, dean of the abbey from 1864 to 1881, in Henry VII’s Lady Chapel Jooney Woodward The burials in the abbey span so great a period of time that strange ...

Over the centuries, this link with a dead monarch encouraged other kings and queens to choose the Abbey as a resting place. Henry VII insisted on a Westminster coronation in 1485, and then left money ...

Henry VII's reign was a prosperous one, meaning there were funds to build the 'wonder of the world' Lady Chapel at ...