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of Furness - flourishing, from its neighbourhood to the rich
and mitred Abbey of Saint Mary. The square tower of its
castle overlooks the town, giving an air of dignity to the
single street which forms its spacious market-place. The
church, dedicated to our Lady, has since 1835 been nearly
rebuilt. Dalton would, however, attract but few visitors,
were it not from the same cause that formerly gave it
opulence. The ruins of the once magnificent abbey still draw
the pilgrim of taste - the lover of contemplation - and the
artist is search of broken pillars and ivied walls.
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FURNESS ABBEY
Was first planted at Tulket, in Amouridness, in the year
1124; three years after which, on the 1st of July, 1127, it
was translated and founded by Stephen, Earl of Bologne and
Morton, (afterwards king of England,) in the vale of
Beckansgill, or the Glen of Deadly Night shade. He brought
monks from Savigny in Normandy, endowing them with the
lordship of Furness and other extensive privileges. They,
however, having fallen from their first estate of
Benedictine simplicity and purity of manners, submitted
after some hesitation to a reform in their discipline, and
by taking the rules of St. Bernard became Cistercians, the
rules of which order they observed until the general
dissolution. It then shared the fate of its compeers, when
its revenues were valued at
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