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Title: Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Sussex Archaeological Society. 1n
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Publisher: Lewes, Eng. (etc.) Sussex Archaeological Society
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t storm in 1287, mentioned by Camden, whichdrove the sea over the marshes of that district and caused avast destruction both of life and property, altogether divertedthe latter part of its course, stopping up its old mouth andforcing it to find a new and more direct passage into the seaat Rye. A little to the east of the hamlet, about a stones cast fromthe south bank of the river, stand the remains of our venera-ble abbey, whose situation must originally have resembledthat of another Cistercian house, the Abbey of Stoneley, in 2 Add. MSS. 6344, fols. 529 and 747. 4 Finium illorum inquilinus, natione 3 Sussex Arch. Collections, VII, 225, Normannus.n. 20. NOTICES OF THE ABBEY OF ROBERTS BRIDGE.- 145 Warwickshire, which Sir William Dugdale describes as se-lected by the monks because it was remote from public roads,with a thick wood on the north, and almost environed by ariver.5 After the common fate of such buildings, it is nowconverted into a farm-house, having the crypt nearly perfect,
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Crypt. but little else of which the form or use can clearly be dis-cerned. Great part of the old structure has been destroyedfrom the foundation; a small portion of broken walls, belong-ing to the chapel and unapplied to any modern purpose,still totters to its fall; whilst an adjoining fragment, whichdisplays some remains of the cloister arches, is converted intoan oast-house; but such a disconnection of parts prevails asto render it difficult, if not impossible, to form any precisenotion of what the house was in the days of its prosperity.Of these last-mentioned portions a sufficient impression maybe conveyed by the accompanying sketch, which I owe tomy friend, J. S. Haven, Esq., of St. Leonards-on-Sea. Thesparrow, who has asserted from the days of David an heredi-tary claim for shelter in sacred edifices, has found, it will beseen, a place where she may lay her young in the conical VIII. 5 Hist, of Warwickshire, p. 176. 19 146 NOTICES OF THE ABBEY OE ROBERTSBUIDGE. thatched roof, so

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