Table of Contents

Foreword (The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster)

1. Westminster Abbey: the Crossing
2. Edward the Confessor’s Crossing Tower and Lantern
3. Henry III’s Unfinished Crossing Tower
4. The Late Medieval Stone and Timber Lantern
5. The Disappearance of the Medieval Lantern
6. Sir Christopher Wren’s Ambitious Tower and Spire
7. Begun, but still Incomplete: Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Crossing Tower and Spire
8. James Wyatt and the Fire of 1803
9. Sir George Gilbert Scott and ‘some ameliorations in the Lantern’
10. The Early Twentieth Century, World War II, and the Aftermath
11. New Surveys of the Crossing and Lantern, 2009–10
12. Summary and Conclusions (Richard Gem)
Conclusions

About the Author

Professor Warwick Rodwell, OBE, D.Phil, D.Litt, FSA, is Consultant Archaeologist to Westminster Abbey and formerly Visiting Professor in Archaeology at the University of Reading. He has written or edited several volumes on Westminster Abbey. He is also author of volumes on Wells Cathedral, Dorchester Abbey and The Archaeology of Churches (2012).