The Coronation Chair, Confessor's Chapel

Westminster Abbey

The second Coronation Chair, made in 1689 for Queen Mary, wife of William III., on the model of the old one, was last used by Queen Adelaide in 1831. The original contains under its seat the famous stone of Scone, the emblem of the power of the Scottish Princes, and traditionally said to be that used by the patriarch Jacob as a pillow. The stone was brought to London by Edward I. in 1297. Every English monarch since that date has be crowned in this chair. [text accompanying photograph]

Image and text scanned by Nathalie Chevalier.

[You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]

The volume containing these images by an unidentified photographer bears the imprint "With H. and C. F. Feist's compliments" but no name, date, or place of publication, though the Feists were dealers in port wine, and Plate 30 demonstrates that the photograph must have been taken after 1902, and John R. Mendel offers evidence that it dates before mid-1906 [GPL].

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