Deseret Evening News | 1910-06-18 | Page 18 | New Museum in Westminster

NEW NEN MUSEUM I IN WESTMINSTER 1 Saturday I now nou boosts bonati bOlI one on new sight a anew anew aI 1 I new tight Ight of ot old things Is la sure aure to 0 interest Americans American over here for their summer vacation There Thero lies has hg just been ben opened on what Is Ic as at the Norman Undercroft in III n Abbey Abb which Is ii I to lo be used In n future as al a museum mUI Um This undercroft opens out ot of what are known as 8 the dark cloisters anti and an 1 forms form a sort of cellar to 10 the th old dormitory of ot the monks part of or which Is III now Westminster School S Por or many tears eara It II was nas divided by IJ partitions and used as aa a general g lumber room but now no the Ih l have ve been knocked an away ay 1 the Ih ceiling hoe has ben been elm clea nod ned and anti whitewashed and electric lights been put In On of ot the most molt Interesting things about the Ibe place which dates hack back to 10 1011 the Iho r nf Is la the tho of or I IH H III which was a carried d at al his hi I and placed en tin his hll hearse In th the Abbey Albe The likeness of or the Ih feet face ta has h evi evl evidently j dently been taen he obtained by bv tome some om sort port of ot pus pl ler lel cast Capt t for tor the features with the th exception lion tion of or the nose noet are te wonderfully well II formed and nd preserved j I IThe The museum mu tum contains of ot other othir kings and td d queens BB as R well II as III tile frog menu ments of ot 0 stone atone carving and other oilier curIo curlo I IIII III tiles that thai hive have hal b been en found from time Uma toi to I IUm time Um Tie The Jerusalem Chamber another of ot the I lights qt It Westminister Abbey Abbe has hu now nou no jeen and anti ran can b be seen n only by b permission from tram the tho Dean Uan The Tue Kamber which thich tsp nas originally used as ashe he the Ih Abbot of ot anteroom anterooms I is s chiefly ohlen Interesting as II a the th where here henry IV 1 died It u is not however ho e r realIsed by every Pr one erie how hol low many kings I are ate burled buried on foreign oreen soil William the Conqueror at Ut Cn Caen Richard r I f at t and nd hl hI heart at and James II 11 In a modest tomb just inside maid the th doorway at Bt St near Paris