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  • Lost medieval chapel sheds light on royal burials at Westminster Abbey, finds new study on 15th-century reconstruction

    12/10/2022 4:46:43 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 6 replies
    Phys dot org ^ | November 30, 2022 | Taylor & Francis
    New evidence, helping to form a 15th-century reconstruction of part of Westminster Abbey, demonstrates how a section of the building was once the focus for the royal family's devotion to the cult of a disemboweled saint and likely contained gruesome images of his martyrdom...Today, only an intricate frame remains from the lost chapel of St. Erasmus. It was demolished in 1502 and little has been known about its role historically...In the end, Elizabeth's last resting place was next to her beloved husband in Windsor in St. George's Chapel, which Edward IV had begun in 1475. Future monarchs have also been...