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Westminster Abbey's "carpet of stone" revealed
Submitted by Milica on Fri, 2008/05/30 - 13:02.
1201 CE to 1300 CE | Architecture and Construction | English | Guardian | Places of Worship
A two-year restoration project has revealed the breathtaking details of a medieval mosaic pavement, depicting the end of the world, in the floor of London's Westminster Abbey. The floor was originally constructed in the 1260s by Henry III>
The pavement, which is "made up of rare marbles and gemstones, including some recycled from monuments 1,000 years older, and pieces of coloured glass, set in complex allegorical patterns into a framework of Purbeck marble cut as intricately as a jigsaw puzzle," has been covered with a thick carpet for 150 years. |
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