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The Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone - Warwick Rodwell

The Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone

History, Archaeology and Conservation

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Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2023
Casemate Publishers (Verlag)
979-8-88857-056-2 (ISBN)
CHF 74,90 inkl. MwSt
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Now available in paperback, this extensively illustrated book explores the fascinating history, archaeology and conservation of the 700 year-old Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone.
Constructed in 1297−1300 for King Edward I, the Coronation Chair ranks amongst the most remarkable and precious treasures to have survived from the Middle Ages. It incorporated in its seat a block of sandstone, which the king seized at Scone, following his victory over the Scots in 1296. For centuries, Scottish kings had been inaugurated on this symbolic ‘Stone of Scone’, to which a copious mythology had also become attached. Edward I presented the Chair, as a holy relic, to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey, and most English monarchs since the fourteenth century have been crowned in it, the last being HM Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953.The Chair and the Stone have had eventful histories: in addition to physical alterations, they suffered abuse in the eighteenth century, suffragettes attached a bomb to them in 1914, they were hidden underground during the Second World War, and both were damaged by the gang that sacrilegiously broke into Westminster Abbey and stole the Stone in 1950. It was recovered and restored to the Chair, but since 1996 the Stone has been exhibited on loan in Edinburgh Castle.Now somewhat battered through age, the Chair was once highly ornate, being embellished with gilding, painting and colored glass. Yet, despite its profound historical significance, until now it has never been the subject of detailed archaeological recording. Moreover, the remaining fragile decoration was in need of urgent conservation, which was carried out in 2010−12, accompanied by the first holistic study of the Chair and Stone. In 2013 the Chair was redisplayed to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the Coronation of HM The Queen.The latest investigations have revealed and documented the complex history of the Chair: it has been modified on several occasions, and the Stone has been reshaped and much altered since it left Scone. This volume assembles, for the first time, the complementary evidence derived from history, archaeology and conservation, and presents a factual account of the Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone, not as separate artifacts, but as the entity that they have been for seven centuries. Their combined significance to the British Monarchy and State – and to the history and archaeology of the English and Scottish nations – is greater than the sum of their parts.Also published here for the first time is the second Coronation Chair, made for Queen Mary II in 1689. Finally, accounts are given of the various full-size replica chairs in Britain and Canada, along with a selection of the many models in metal and ceramic which have been made during the last two centuries.

Professor Warwick Rodwell, OBE, is Consultant Archaeologist to Westminster Abbey. He is the author of Canterbury Cathedral, Trinity Chapel: The Archaeology of the Mosaic Pavement and Setting of the Shrine of St Thomas Becket (with David Neal, 2022), The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey: The Pavements and Royal Tombs: History, Archaeology, Architecture and Conservation (with David Neal, 2019), and St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire: Volume 1, History, Archaeology and Architecture (2011), all published by Oxbow Books.

Foreword by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster x

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Historiography of the Chair and the Stone

2 St Edward’s Chair and the Stone of Scone in medieval history

3 From Scone to Westminster: starting with a stone

4 King Edward I commissions a chair, 1297

5 Design and construction of St Edward’s Chair: a detailed study

6 The polychromy of the Coronation Chair: a detailed study by Marie Louise Sauerberg

7 The Stone seat

8 The Coronation Chair from the later Middle Ages to the seventeenth century

9 A companion Chair for Queen Mary II, 1689

10 Vicissitudes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

11 Ceremonies and incidents of the twentieth century involving the Coronation Chair

12 History ignored: the events of 1996

13 Popular influence of the Chair in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

14 Conservation and the Chair: a physical history by Marie Louise Sauerberg

15 One of the glories of Westminster Abbey: the Coronation Chair redisplayed, 2013 by Ptolemy Dean

Appendix 1: Timeline of events connected with the Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone

Appendix 2:‘Damaged by wanton mischief’: graffiti on the Coronation Chairs by Eddie Smith

Notes and references 275

Bibliography 293

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 328 Colour and B/W images
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Antiquitäten
Sachbuch/Ratgeber
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-13 979-8-88857-056-2 / 9798888570562
Zustand Neuware
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