2-889-254 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Coronation-Stone, at Kingston-Upon-Thames, [now in Greater London], 1850. Depiction of the '...Coronation Stone, on which certain of the Saxon Monarchs are traditionally said to have sat during the ceremony...This Stone, until very lately, stood on the north side of the Old Church. According to Speed, the historian, nine of our Saxon Monarchs were crowned in Kingston, the Stone being used as the Royal seat during the ceremony. It has been removed, during the present mayoralty, to the centre of an open space, near the Savings-bank, and directly opposite the High-street, at the turning into the Portsmouth-road; here it is placed on an heptagonal pedestal of granite, which stands on a circular base of the same material'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.