2641326 View of the monument to John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall in Westminster Abbey, c.1750 (engraving) by Basire, James (1730-1802); length: 42 cm; London Metropolitan Archives, City of London; (add.info.: Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. John of Eltham, 1st Earl of Cornwall (15 August 1316 ??13 September 1336) was the second son of king Edward II of England and his queen Isabella of France. He was heir to the English throne from the date of the abdication of his father (25 January 1327) to the birth of his nephew Edward, the Black Prince (15 June 1330).); 穢 London Metropolitan Archives ; British, out of copyright.