The dimensions of the abbey-church, according to the new survey, are
as follows, viz.:- The length of the church, from the west end of it
to the east end of St. Edward's Chapel, is 354 feet; the breadth of
the west end, 66 feet; the breadth of the cross aisle, from north to
south, 189 feet; the height of the middle roof, 92 feet; the
distance from the west end of the church to the choir, 162 feet; and
from the west end to the cross aisle, 220 feet; the distance from
the east end of St. Edward's Chapel to the west end of Henry VII.'s
Chapel, 36 feet; and the length of Henry VII.'s Chapel, 99 feet: so
that the length of the whole building is 489 feet; the breadth of
Henry VII.'s Chapel, 66 feet; and the height, 54 feet. The nave and
cross aisles of the abbey-church are supported by fifty slender
pillars, of Sussex marble, besides forty-five demi-pillars or
pilasters. There are an upper and lower range of windows, being
ninety-four in number, those at the four ends of the cross very
spacious. All which, with the arches, roofs, doors, &c., are of the
ancient Gothic order. Above the chapiters the pillars spread into
several semi-cylindrical branches, forming and adorning the arches
of the pillars, and those of the roofs of the aisles, which are
three in number, running from east to west, and a cross aisle
running from north to south. The choir is paved with black and
white marble, in which are twenty-eight stalls on the north side, as
many on the fourth, and eight at the west end; from the choir we
ascend by several steps to a most magnificent marble altarpiece,
which would be esteemed a beauty in an Italian church.


Beyond the altar is King Edward the Confessor's Chapel, surrounded
with eleven or twelve other chapels replenished with monuments of
the British nobility, for a particular whereof I refer the reader to