Gasquet, Francis Aidan, Cardinal, 1846-1929 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 123
are 129 feet across, 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… … Furness Abbeyand 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 making…
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