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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 125

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s are 129 feet across, and have eastern chapels. Thechoir extends two bays into the nave, and the sanctuarystill retains the platform of the altar, a sedilia of fivecanopies, and aumbries. In the wall of the south tran-sept may yet be seen the dormitory stairs used by themonks when coming to the… … FURNESS ABBEY length, and the parlour and cloister aumbry. On eitherside of the Chapter House, entered by two doorways, isthe common room, with a fireplace in it. It is 50 feetlong, and is of fourteen bays, having the dormitoryabove it. Furness apparently went on in the even tenor of itsways,…

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