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Page 109:-
banks are fertile, but the ridges which bound it on the
north, or separate it from the Irthing, parallel to which it
flows for some distance, are naked, cold, and uninviting. A
sudden turn down the hill, on top of which the traveller has
been proceeding for a mile or two, presents the sweet
smiling Holm of St. Mary. On the right, fine woods clothe
the swelling ridges which die away in the meadows below, in
the midst of which, rising from among majestic elms, are
seen the venerable ruins of Lanercost Abbey, backed by the
woods that slope down from the baronial castle of Naworth to
the clear murmuring streams of the Irthing.
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Lanercost Priory
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LANERCOST ABBEY.
The grey ruins of Lanercost, approached through the remains
of a gateway covered with ivy, stand a little distance from
the Irthing on its northern banks, in the green holms of St.
Mary. This Monastery was founded in 1116, by Robert de
Vallibus, for monks of the order of St. Augustine, chartered
in the sixteenth year of Henry II, A.D. 1169, and dedicated
by Bernard, Bishop of Carlisle, to Mary Magdalene.
The church consists of a nave with north aisle, transepts
with aisles east of them, used as monumental chapels and
choir. The western front is one of great beauty and
simplicity; a magnificent door, pointed and of many
mouldings, fills the lowest compartment; above it runs a
string of
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-- "Kingwater" -- King Water
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-- "Lanercost Abbey" -- Lanercost Priory
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