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Post by Cearnach » Thu May 28, 2020 12:03 am

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The North Transept will be used in later generations as a burial place for numerous English noblemen. In 1189, it holds some statuary and serves as a secondary prayer space and a point of transition from the abbey church to the cloisters of the monastery proper.

During the coronation, seating is placed here for the noblewomen of England. This seating is removed by the monks immediately after the coronation ceremony.
Gm * Man of Angles * Sionnach * Scealai *

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,/Every poem an epitaph. And any action/Is a step to the block, to the fire, down the sea's throat/Or to an illegible stone: and that is where we start.
We die with the dying:/See, they depart, and we go with them./We are born with the dead:/See, they return, and bring us with them./The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree/Are of equal duration. A people without history/Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern/Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails/On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel/History is now and England --Eliot, Little Gidding
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