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Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain (1862)

Howitt, William, 1792-1879 · London : A.W. Bennett · leaf 66

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t, others of a moreobtufe fafhion. The building is divided at every feparateheight of window by bands running along the whole facade;and the weft front in particular exhibits thofe unions ofarches, and alfo blank arches, which marked the progrefs ofAnglo-Gothic from the fingle round arches of the… … LANTHONY ABBEY. Lanthony, like Glaftonbury and many other monafteries,had its literary monk, who became its hiftorian; and from themonk of Lanthony we learn the following particulars, as pre-ferved by Dugdale in his Monafticon:—St. David, uncle ofking Arthur, finding a folitary place amongft woods,…

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