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Poets' Corner
Poets' Corner is the area of the southern transept of Westminster Abbey where poets, playwrights and writers have been buried or commemorated. It comprises floor slabs, wall tablets, busts and full monuments clustered along the transept wall and around the entrance to St Benedict's Chapel. The corner contains both graves and commemorative memorials added over many centuries.
First raised
1400
Its prime
2010
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 2010
What Poets' Corner looked like in its prime.
An interior stretch of the Abbey's southern transept: high Gothic arches and grey ashlar masonry enclose a vertical wall crowded with marble and alabaster monuments, pedimented niches, round medallions and seated or standing sculpted figures. White and pale stone contrasts with darker mortar joints; carved inscriptions and name-plaques sit at varied heights above polished floor slabs. The space is compact and layered, with memorials set into recesses, on plinths, and flush with the wall beneath tall clerestory windows.
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The record describes 10 distinct spots at Poets' Corner, including 10 interiors: approach from the nave into the southern transept, geoffrey chaucer's tomb (in front of st benedict's chapel), william shakespeare monument and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
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