Howitt, William; Howitt, Mary Botham; Bedford, Francis [Bearb.]: Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain (London: A. W. Bennett, 1862)

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the ruin. The falling in of part of thefe arches led to the
difcovery, and the foundations have fince been laid bare, and
prefent very interefting details of the goodly manfion of the
abbots, containing a fine pillared hall, one hundred and
feventy-one feet long by feventy feet wide, ample kitchens,
chapel, refedfory, and affable for the fix white horfes which drew


FOUNTAINS I LADY CHAPEL.
the chariot of the laft abbot. “ Sex equi ad bigam.” Amongft
the rubbifh which covered the foundations, were found many
ornamental encauftic tiles, and amongft the afhes of the
kitchen curious fragments of filver plate, pottery, etc., and
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