Westminster Abbey: everything you wanted to know
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Henry VIII's Coronation Church
The design was influenced by the needs and requirements of the coronation process. Henry just wanted what was best, it didn't matter where it came from. But in a way, it's also a very English church. If a French designer had seen it, a French mastermason, they would have said: 'It's gone quite high'
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