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st. nicholas' church, abingdon. 15
into the fronts of buildings about this period. With a large court in the centre,
measuring 104 feet 6 inches by 76 feet 4 inches, surrounded by lofty buildings, and
entered by a handsome tower gateway, this mansion must have been spacious in its
interior, and have displayed much grandeur and dignity externally. The two pro-
jecting octagon towers, about seventy-three feet high, are each divided into eight
stories or floors, lighted by small pointed arch windows. Two floors, occupied by
two rooms, fill up the space between the towers: these have large square windows,
with mullions, which partake of the character of the Ionic pilaster. The decorations
on the summit, with those of the windows, cornices, &c. are made of a species of
white brick, which was cast in moulds, in large and thick masses. All the fire-places
are made of soft fire-stone, the door-posts and lintels of the stables, &c. are of pur-
beck marble, and the whole of the walls are of brick. These are not peculiar either
in size or substance ; but the mode of building is eminently substantial. Exclusive
of the great defalcations in this structure, many absurd and destructive alterations
have progressively been made by successive proprietors. Abandoned to neglect
and decay, it was, till within these few years, fast hastening to total ruin, when its
present owner, N. C. Corsellis, Esq. checked its mutilating progress, by some
praiseworthy repairs and judicious restorations.
>t. jEtcjjolas' Cfmrcf), an& tlje Wwy (^atetoap,
ABINGDON, BERKSHIRE.
The present town of Abingdon appears to have obtained its name and original
consequence from an abbey which was founded here, about 675,* by Heane, nephew
to Cissa, who was Viceroy of the West Saxons. The miseries occasioned by the
Danish incursions, in the reign of Alfred, compelled the monks to forsake this
Place; but, in 955, it was again reinstated and restored "by the care of Ethelwold
its abbot, who was afterwards Bishop of Winchester, and the bounty of King Edred
and King Edgar."f The cunning policy of Dunstan, about this time, impelled him
* Willis's History of Mitred Abbies, vol. i. p. 1, &c.
t Tanner's Notitia. Berkshire.
into the fronts of buildings about this period. With a large court in the centre,
measuring 104 feet 6 inches by 76 feet 4 inches, surrounded by lofty buildings, and
entered by a handsome tower gateway, this mansion must have been spacious in its
interior, and have displayed much grandeur and dignity externally. The two pro-
jecting octagon towers, about seventy-three feet high, are each divided into eight
stories or floors, lighted by small pointed arch windows. Two floors, occupied by
two rooms, fill up the space between the towers: these have large square windows,
with mullions, which partake of the character of the Ionic pilaster. The decorations
on the summit, with those of the windows, cornices, &c. are made of a species of
white brick, which was cast in moulds, in large and thick masses. All the fire-places
are made of soft fire-stone, the door-posts and lintels of the stables, &c. are of pur-
beck marble, and the whole of the walls are of brick. These are not peculiar either
in size or substance ; but the mode of building is eminently substantial. Exclusive
of the great defalcations in this structure, many absurd and destructive alterations
have progressively been made by successive proprietors. Abandoned to neglect
and decay, it was, till within these few years, fast hastening to total ruin, when its
present owner, N. C. Corsellis, Esq. checked its mutilating progress, by some
praiseworthy repairs and judicious restorations.
>t. jEtcjjolas' Cfmrcf), an& tlje Wwy (^atetoap,
ABINGDON, BERKSHIRE.
The present town of Abingdon appears to have obtained its name and original
consequence from an abbey which was founded here, about 675,* by Heane, nephew
to Cissa, who was Viceroy of the West Saxons. The miseries occasioned by the
Danish incursions, in the reign of Alfred, compelled the monks to forsake this
Place; but, in 955, it was again reinstated and restored "by the care of Ethelwold
its abbot, who was afterwards Bishop of Winchester, and the bounty of King Edred
and King Edgar."f The cunning policy of Dunstan, about this time, impelled him
* Willis's History of Mitred Abbies, vol. i. p. 1, &c.
t Tanner's Notitia. Berkshire.