F YORK LONDON ENG STEREOVIEW WESTMINSTER ABBEY HENRY VII LADY CHAPEL SOUTHWORTH
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F YORK LONDON ENG STEREOVIEW WESTMINSTER ABBEY HENRY VII LADY CHAPEL SOUTHWORTH:
$19.95
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- Offered for sale from a rescent estate sale is an early stereoview Photographed by F. York, London. York was noted in the British Journal of Photography in 1874 and 1878 as a photogapher. An unusual aspect of the stereoview is the signature on the back of Alice H. Southworth with date of 1878. At this sale I acquired a number of early stereoviews with either the signature and or Initials of H. A. S. and or A. H. S. Information below on Southworth\'s and Westminster Abbey. The stereoview is from the set LONDON AND NEIGHBOURHOOD and titled as follows 15 WESTMINSTER ABBEY, HENRY V.I.\'S CHAPEL - OR HENRY VII\'S LADY CHAPEL (today) with handwritten date of the person who visited the scene in 1878. additional information on the Southworth\'s and the Lady Chapel:
The Southworth brothers were engaged in paper manufacturing in western Massachusetts and Connecticut from the early years of the century and particularly after 1850. Wells Southworth built a mill in Mittineague West Springfield in 1839 and they made fine writing paper by hand. In 1866 Edward Southworth married Harriet Ann Deane and had one child. Harriet Ann Southworths abbreviations are H.A.S.
His mill became the property of the Southworth Manufacturing Company of which for more than fifty years he was president and which later became the Southworth Company in the control of his son Horatio W Southworth. A younger brother Edward Southworth ( from my research I believe that Edward was the father of Alice H. Southworth and or abbreviations of A. H. S.) was connected with the paper manufacturing in Mittineague in 1839. The two brothers also organized the Hampshire Paper Company of South Hadley Falls. The Southworths were considered an upper class family and traveled the world including England, France, Germany etc as note with either the name or initials on the back of the stereoviews as offered for sale. The initials vary from H.A. S to A. H. S. This information came from theSouthworth-Dickinson Family VII Lady Chapel, now more often known just as theHenry VII Chapel, is a largeLady chapelat the far Eastern end ofWestminster Abbey, paid for by the will ofHenry VII. It is separated from the rest of the abbey by brass gates and a flight of stairs.
The structure of the chapel is a three-aisled nave composed of four bays. The apse of the chapel contains the altar, and behind that, the tombs of Henry VII and his wife as well as ofJames I. There are five apsidal chapels.
The chapel is noted for itspendantfan vaultceiling.The chapel is built in a very latePerpendicular Gothicstyle, the magnificence of which causedJohn Lelandto call it theorbis miraculum(the wonder of the world).The tombs of several monarchs includingHenry VII,Edward VI,Elizabeth I,Mary I,James I,Charles IIandMary, Queen of Scotsare found in the chapel.
F YORK LONDON ENG STEREOVIEW WESTMINSTER ABBEY HENRY VII LADY CHAPEL SOUTHWORTH:
$19.95