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Title: Antiquities of Great Britain, : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing.
Year: 1807 (1800s)
Authors: Hearne, Thomas, 1744-1817 Byrne, William, 1743-1805
Subjects: Monasteries Castles Architecture
Publisher: London: : Printed by J. Phillips... and published by the proprietors T. Hearne and W. Byrne
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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MELROSE ABBEY. ABBAIE de MELROSE. The Architecture of this Abbey Church, is as much to be admired for anextreme delicacy and tafte in the execution of its feveral Parts, as forits general character as a Whole. Pointed arches, buttrefTes orna-mented with niches, pinnacles curioufly wrought, and cluftered columns,whofe capitals are varioufly decorated with fruit and plants, all exqui-litely carved, are the diftinguifhing characferiftics of this building. Notwithftanding the furious zeal of our reformers, in the deftru&ionof thefe venerable piles of architecture, and almoft every piece of fculpturewith which they were enriched, feveral figures in the higher nichesof the buttrefTes, as well as in thofe that decorate the outrides of thegreat eafl and fouth windows, are yet remaining. There are about 68niches on the outfide of this Building; the Figures in them confift ofSaints, Monks, Nuns, and fome of a different character, holding variousmufical inftruments, feveral brute animals, an

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