Е. А. Огнева Лингвострановедение: британская палитра Учебное пособие
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60 В 1823г. была возведена Королевская библиотека, к ко- торой позже достроили новые помещения, а также круглый читальный зал под большим медным куполом. В музее нахо- дятся древние произведения искусства, копия Великой хар- тии вольностей, скульптуры Пантеона и древнеегипетские мумии. WESTMINSTER ABBEY. The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, popularly known as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English, later British and later still (and currently) monarchs of the Commonwealth realms. According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, the Abbey was first founded in the time of Mellitus (d. 624), Bishop of London, on the present site, then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island); based on a late tradition that a fisherman called Aldrich on the River Thames saw a vision of Saint Peter near the site. This seems to be quoted to justify the gifts of salmon from Thames fishermen that the Abbey received in later years. The proven origins are that in the 960s or early 970s, Saint Dunstan, assisted by King Edgar, installed a community of Benedictine monks here. The abbey is a Royal Peculiar and briefly held the status of a cathedral from 1540 to 1550. Westminster Abbey is a collegiate church governed by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, as established by Royal charter of Queen Elizabeth I in 1560, which created it as the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster and a Royal Peculiar under the personal jurisdiction of the Sovereign. Until the 19th century, Westminster was the third seat of learning in England, after Ox- ford and Cambridge. It was here that the first third of the King James Bible Old Tes- tament and the last half of the New Testament were translated. The New English Bible was also put together here in the 20th cen- tury. Westminster suffered minor damage during the Blitz on 15 November 1940. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey |