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 404
ences, Pope Nicholas IV gave permis-sion for the monks to transfer their monastery toWhalley in Lancashire where a place had been pro-vided for them by Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln. Theestablishment, therefore, of Whalley Abbey dates from1296. The building of the church was commenced atonce, and it… … WHALLIiY ABB1:Y : TIIIC ABBOTS HOUSE JVhalley 255 feet long, divided into a nave of ten bays and achoir and presbytery of two; the transepts, 142 feetacross, had three chapels in each w^ing. The refectoryand kitchen appear to have been completed betv^een1362 and 1425, and the last portion of the…
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