The greater abbeys of England, with illustrations in colour after Warwick Goble (1908)
Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York ; Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 128
, and haveeastern chapels. The choir extends two bays into thenave, and the sanctuary still retains the platform ofthe altar, a sedilia of five canopies, and aumbries.In the wall of the south transept may yet be seenthe dormitory stairs used by the monks when comingto the night office. The domestic… … Fur7tess Abbey and the parlour and cloister aumbry. On either side ofthe Chapter House, entered by two doorways, is thecommon room, with a fireplace in it. It is 50 feet long,and is of fourteen bays, having the dormitory above it.Furness apparently went on in the even tenor ofits ways, without…
Abbeys
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