Near the graves of Stephenson and Telford are buried four distinguished architects of the nineteenth century. These are:—
(1) Sir Charles Barry, who built the present Houses of Parliament, and who died in 1860.
(2) Sir Gilbert Scott, who died in 1878. He was one of the leaders in the revival of Gothic architecture in England.
(3) George Edmund Street, who died in 1881. A distinguished architect in the Gothic style. He designed the present Law Courts.
(4) John Loughborough Pearson, who died in 1897.
Sir Gilbert Scott and Mr. Pearson were both of them “Surveyors of the Fabric” to the Abbey. This means that they had charge of the actual building from the architectural point of view.
In the Chapel of St. John the Evangelist is a memorial to the great Arctic explorer, Sir John Franklin, who was lost in 1847, with both his crews, while making the discovery of the North-West Passage. The monument was put up by Lady Franklin. On it is a representation of the vessel fast in the Polar ice, and round the sculptured scene are the words—
“O ye ice and snow, O ye frost and cold, bless ye the Lord; Praise him and magnify Him for ever.”
Below are Tennyson’s beautiful lines—
“Not here: the White North has thy bones; and thou