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£905 16s. according to Dugdale, or £966 7s.
according to Speed.
Its ruins consist of the conventual church, the
chapter-house, and school-house, which occupy a space of
about sixty-five acres, secluded in a deep glen, which
nevertheless opens out below into an expanse of fertile
meadows, irrigated by a murmuring brook, and screened by a
forests of stately timber. The style of its architecture is
a mixture of Norman and early English. The nave is supported
by fine massy clustered piers, from which spring circular
arches of massy deep mouldings. The transept is
distinguished by long elegant lancets, and the chancel has
been a specimen of more decorated workmanship, having four
beautiful sedilia on its southern side. The tower, low and
square, has been supported by four magnificent arches, of
which only one remains entire; they appear to have rested
upon finely clustered piers. The chapter-house, a noble room
of sixty feet by forty-five, had a vaulted roof formed of
twelve ribbed arches, springing from six pillars in two
rows, fourteen feet distant from each other. The roof has
now fallen in.
The inside length of the church, from east to west, is two
hundred and seventy-five feet; the length of the transept,
from north to south, is one hundred and thirty feet; the
width of the nave is sixty-five feet; whilst that of the
choir is only twenty-eight feet.
The finest view of these interesting ruins is from
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