Famous homes of Great Britain and their stories (1900)
Malan, Alfred Henry, editor · New York, G. P. Putnam's son; London, The Pall Mall magazine · leaf 250
dicated, he found the high aftar of the crypt, corre-sponding with that once in the chancel above ! No historiclocality could, I suppose, be better ascertained or authenticatedthan this, marked out, immediately after the battle, by order ofthe Conqueror. This crypt consists of three converging… … 223 2 24 Battle U\)bc^ the church above. In the central chapel stands the high altar,little damaged, and surrounded by its original pavement. Wefound the whole place choked with reeds, and half full of water—a dark and reedy pool, as Sir Francis Palgrave describes it.*A11 forlorn and shattered,…
Historic buildings · Country homes · Dwellings
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