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Title: Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923 Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923
Subjects: Cathedrals Cathedrals Church buildings Church buildings
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ongas its castle was standing, was by no means a very peaceful place. Of thenunnery very little now remains. The most important fragment is a squarechamber with a rather low vaulted roof, which is supported by a central pillarof dark marble. This, which is said to Jiave been the chapter-house, is stillin good preservation. A portion, however, of the mansion which succeededthe nunnery, and which, no doubt, was constructed from its materials andincluded some of its buildings, still remains. This is a ruined facade, withsquare mullioned windows and an Elizabethan porch, now almost buried in ivy.Here, in Bunyans time, the Squire of Elstow no doubt lived; and there wouldbe trim lawns and gardens where now the weeds are growing wild. The greatallegorist is not buried in the adjoining churchyard. On a journey from Read-ing to London he got a chill; tliis turned to a fever, which in a few daysproved fatal, and he was laid in Bunhill Fields, the Campo Santo of theNonconformists. T. Gr. Bonney.
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ST. Nicholas, yakmouth : thk interioh. YARMOUTH AND HULL. GREAT PARISH CHURCHES. 1T7HEN Cerdic the Saxon, according to Mattliew of Westminster and others,* * landed on the sands at the mouths of the group of ICast-country streams whichnow discharge themselves into the German Ocean at Great Yarmouth, lie appearsto have slighted the claims of the place to be regarded as an agreeable marineresidence, and transferred himself and company into Wessex. Probably a few-huts for fishers and fowlers constituted for many years after that event (nearthe close of the fifth century) the nameless village on the spot. But as timepassed on, and fishing prospered, there arose on a green hill—most likelywhat is now called Fullers Hill—a small church dedicated to St. Benedict. Itis mentioned in Domesday Book as possessed by Ailmarus, Bishop (of Elmham)in the time of Edward the Confessor, and contemporaneously with the compila-tion of the survey by William (de Beaufeu), the Bishop of Thetford. After-wa

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