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 272
unheard-of andunwonted pestilence come to our assistance to avertour entire undoing. The church as it now stands measures 240 feet inlength, the presbytery 52 feet and the transept 121feet; the low central tower is about 100 feet high.The whole structure is mainly Norman, although thewestern bays… … ROMSEY abbey: THE NUns DOORWAY Romsey entirely disappeared, and perhaps the only relic of thewhole is the interesting carved ancient crucifix, whichstood outside the door leading from the cloister to thechurch at the place where the nuns used to assemblebefore their choir duties. In 1523 the last…
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