Lethaby, William Richard: Westminster Abbey and the antiquities of the coronation (London: Duckworth & Co., 1911)

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he died. After the Great Hall was
erected, the Old Hall remained as the
lesser or domestic hall of the inner
palace, and it was itself rebuilt in the
twelfth century. It appears from the
records that it was in this hall that the
preliminary enthronement of the Prince
took place (Fig. 2). The accounts of the
Coronation of Edward I. show that a
timber alley was constructed leading from
the door of the Lesser Hall to the church.
Of Edward II. we are told that on the
morning of the Coronation he was placed
“on an elevated seat in the little hall.”
At a later time the processions started
from the Great Hall; this was so at the
Coronation of Richard HI. This Great
Hall was originally a rudely magnificent
structure. Its walls were heightened by
Richard IL, and the now existing roof,
a superb piece of carpentry, was then set
over it in one wide span without any
internal supports such as it had before
that time. When, early in last century,
the walls were repaired, many fragments
of Norman windows and of an arcaded
wall passage which passed at their level
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