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Identifier: greaterabbeysofe01gasq (find matches)
Title: The greater abbeys of England
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929
Subjects: Abbeys
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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enue was estimated at £18,000 of our money. Theenclosure wall of the monastery surrounded sixty-threeacres, and there are many remains of the old buildingsto prove their extent. The present hotel is said to havebeen the abbots lodging. Of the church, the arch, 60feet in height, on the east of the crossing, remains; thelate Perpendicular tower at the west end is 17 feet square,and was built within the late Norman nave, which hasaisles and is 160 feet long and 65 feet broad. The tran-septs are 129 feet across, and have eastern chapels. Thechoir extends two bays into the nave, and the sanctuarystill retains the platform of the altar, a sedilia of fivecanopies, and aumbries. In the wall of the south tran-sept may yet be seen the dormitory stairs used by themonks when coming to the night office. The domesticbuildings are of a date early in the thirteenth century.On the west side of the cloister was a vaulted crypt of theguest house; on the east is the Chaptet House 60 feet in (100) •■
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FURNESS ABBEY length, and the parlour and cloister aumbry. On eitherside of the Chapter House, entered by two doorways, isthe common room, with a fireplace in it. It is 50 feetlong, and is of fourteen bays, having the dormitoryabove it. Furness apparently went on in the even tenor of itsways, without making history in the usual sense of theword, from the time of its foundation till the sixteenthcentury. It had at all times, apparently, a large com-munity, and beyond the thirty choir monks, which wasthe number constantly maintained, it sent out severalcolonies to make new foundations. Thus Calder Abbeywas its first daughter-house in 1134, in which same yearit established Rushin Abbey in the Isle of Man. Fiftyyears later it colonised Swineshead, but after this timethese offshoots were discouraged by the Cistercian Gen-eral Chapter. Besides the English offshoots, moreover,there were several Irish foundations, which had intimaterelations with Furness, and even claimed to have hadtheir beg

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