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The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire (1883)

Lefroy, William, 1836-1900 · London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday · leaf 90

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his romantic cavern with the simple * The peculiar nature of the ground had obviously suggestedthe erection of a range of three-storey buildings on the low levelnext the river, and I am at present inclined to think that thedormitory of the canons, which was certainly not at the eastside of the… … Easby and Egglcston. 57 but efficacious arrangement for drainage which sooften affords a valuable clue to the whole ground-plan of a monastic ruin. From Easby the mysteriouscommunication is said to have been with St. MartinsPriory, at Richmond, once a cell of St. Marys Abbey,at York. The presence,…

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