2-697-429 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey, London, 1894. The Coronation Chair, commissioned in 1296 by King Edward I and known historically as St Edward's Chair or King Edward's Chair, is a wooden throne on which the British monarch sits when he or she is invested with regalia and crowned at the coronation. Beneath it is the Stone of Scone. From Beautiful Britain; views of our stately homes. [The Werner Company of Chicago, 1894]