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Identifier: sussexarchaeolog08suss (find matches)
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
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ld 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 picturesque, albeit so incongruously united I jwith the broken relics of Gothic architecture.
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South-East View of Robertsbridge Abbey. Views of the exterior (p. 148) of the chapel and of the refec-tory (p. 164), after drawings by Grimm taken in 1783,exhibitingmuch more of the buildings than now exists, have been kindlycontributed by Mrs. Blaauw; while for original drawings ofthe interior of the chapel as it now appears (p. 153), of twobosses which formerly ornamented the chapel roof (pp. 141,176), of the arches of the crypt (p. 145), of a recess in the re-fectory (p. 166), and an armorial tile (p. 173), I am indebtedto the obliging courtesy of Mrs. Wrench: these will be founddispersed through my essay. Dr. Wrench has also favouredme with a very exact ground-plan, showing accurately the re-lative position and distances of such parts of the buildings asare still left, with certain dotted foundations ; anything furtherwould be mere conjecture. A fragment of carved stone, onceforming apparently the central capital from which two noblearches sprang, now laid on its side, discharges

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