Jerusalem Chamber

The Jerusalem Chamber is a room in what was formerly the abbot's house of Westminster Abbey. The room overlooks the main west door of the abbey. It was added in the fourteenth century. The abbot's house was made the deanery when the monastery was dissolved in 1540.

Henry IV of England died in the Jerusalem Chamber on 20 March 1413, and the Committee to write the King James Version of the Bible met there in 1611. The Upper House of Convocation often met there, and the Westminster Assembly met there from the Winter of 1643 until its dissolution.^[1]

The Jerusalem Chamber is referenced in act IV of William Shakespeare’s play Henry IV, Part 2.^[2]

References

^ "Jerusalem Chamber". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
^ "SCENE IV. Westminster. The Jerusalem Chamber".

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Early modern	William Benson Richard Cox Hugh Weston William Bill Gabriel Goodman Lancelot Andrewes Richard Neile George Montaigne Robert Tounson John Williams Richard Steward John Earle John Dolben Thomas Sprat Francis Atterbury Samuel Bradford Joseph Wilcocks Zachary Pearce John Thomas Samuel Horsley
Late modern	William Vincent John Ireland Thomas Turton Samuel Wilberforce William Buckland Richard Chenevix Trench Arthur Penrhyn Stanley George Granville Bradley Armitage Robinson Herbert Edward Ryle William Foxley Norris Paul de Labilliere Alan Don Eric Abbott Edward Carpenter Michael Mayne Wesley Carr John Hall David Hoyle

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David Stanton (Sub-Dean and Canon Treasurer)
Anthony Ball (Rector of St Margaret's)
Jamie Hawkey (Canon Theologian and Almoner)
Tricia Hillas (Canon Steward and Archdeacon, and Speaker's Chaplain)
Mark Birch (Minor Canon and Precentor)
Robert Latham (Minor Canon and Sacrist)
Minor Canon and Chaplain (vacant)

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