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Excursion to Furness
Abbey
LIVERPOOL ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
July 9. The annual excursion was this year to Furness
Abbey. The abbey is well known for the scope it presents to
the labours of the archaeologist, whilst at the same time it
is replete with a variety of points of high interest to the
architect.
In A.D. 1127, Stephen, then earl of Mortaign and Boulogne,
erected the abbey on the banks of a rivulet near Dalton, in
Furness, as a place of refuge for Cistercian monks who had
removed here from Tulketh, in Amoun-
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