A SOCIETY WEDDING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 136, 5 December 1907, Page 7

A SOCIETY WEDDING.

■ ' a» — MARRIAGE SOLEMNISED IN AN UNDERGROUND CHAPEL. By Telegraph. — Press Association. — Copyright. (Received December 5, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 4th December. 1 The Right Rev. Dr. Ingram, Bishop of London, officiated at the marriage of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Loreburn, to Miss Hicks-Beach. The marriage was the first ever solemnised in the crypt chapel at Westminster Hall. There was a largo gathering of society people. Lord Loreburn, of Dumfries, better known as Sir Robert Reid, is a distinguished lawyer. He was born in 1846. Miss Hicks-Beach belongs to the wellknown Gloucestershire family of that name. '. " " Westminster Hall adjoins the Houses of Parliament on the west, forming part of the ancient palace of Westirinster. It was bagun by William Ruius, burned at the end of tho 13th century, and restored by Edward IT. and Rischard 11. It has a magnificent framed hammerbeara roof, in a single sprm 68 feet wide ; thß length is "290 feet, and the height 92 feet. Here sat some of the first English Parliaments ; here, until George 1V.,. the coronation ceremonies wero held ; and here Charles 1. was condemned and Cromwell saluted as Lord Protector. The hall now serves as a vestibule to tho Houses of Parliament. Below it on the east is the crypt of St. Stephen, or Church of St. Mary .Undercroft, a vaulted pointed chapel, inarchitecture and decoration somewhat resembling the lower chapel of St. Chapelle, Paris. The rich cloisters were built by Henry, VIII.