Kingston Upon Thames, Parish Church Interior 1893
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The Queen came here in her Jubilee year, 1977, to unveil a stone commemorating the crowning of her predecessor Edward the Elder on this site 1100 years ago. Egbert, King of Wessex, held his great council here in 838, and Athelstan and Ethelred the Unready were two of the Saxon kings of England crowned here in the 10th century. The church has a 14th-century wall painting of St Blaise, and the impressive 16th-century tomb of Sir Anthony Benn; the 17th-century marble font is attributed to Sir Christopher Wren. In the tower are twelve bells and an 18th-century carillon. The great west window is 19th-century, and the magnificent Frobenius organ was installed in 1988.
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