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Description: | The engravings come from J R Planche. 1838. Royal Records; or, a Chronicle of the Coronations of the Queens Regnant of England, reviewed in Gentleman's Magazine, June 1838, p. 609-13. Planche followed tradition in saying that the Winchester chair had been sent to Mary Tudor by the Pope and was used during her coronation on 1 October 1553 in Westminster Abbey. This, as the reviewer thought, is incorrect. It is more likely that the chair was in Winchester Cathedral when Mary married Philip II of Spain on 25 July 1554. After the marriage was completed, the Queen retired to the Lady Chapel and here, according to tradition, she sat upon the chair, which is still known in the cathedral as Queen Mary's Chair.
The documentation of the chair goes back to a will dated 1610. For years it was kept in the Lady Chapel, later being removed as a conservation measure to the unused chapel of Bishop Gardiner. A late eighteenth-century description of the chair, in the Antiquarian Repertory, describes it as made of wood, covered over with purple velvet, and adorned with gilt nails, the whole having suffered much from time, worms and moths. The two cross bars of the back were added later.
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Bussby, Frederick. 1979. Winchester Cathedral 1079-1979, p. 103-104. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | coronation chair Mary Tudor Winchester Cathedral Queen Mary's Chair Queen Mary's Coronation Chair Mary I Queen Mary coronation chair King Philip II | Temporal: | start=1838-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | James Robinson Planche, Gentleman's Magazine; Antiquarian Repertory | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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