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Title: A complete guide to the lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist; with Mr. Wordsworth's description of the scenery of the country, etc.: and five letters on the geology of the Lake district
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Hudson, John, of Kendal, ed
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: Kendal, J. Hudson London, Longman and Co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the Abbey a.djoining. CH, the chapter-house, over which were the library and scriptorium. Theroof is represented as it lately stood. Tlie porch has been ornamented with adeep ox-eye cornice, and pUastres of marble. The pilasters are demoHshed>but the roof is entire. On each side of this porch there is a portico in the waJl,,with a similar cornice» R, the dining-room, or refectory. There has been a passage leading from itto K, the kitchen and offices, over which were lodging-rooms fox the secularservants.L, the locutorium, the calefactory, and conversation room.H, haUs and rooms. S, a building on the outside of the strait enclosure, supposed, by West, to havebeen the school-house, but now genemUy admitted to have been a private cha>pel to the Guest-HaU. There is a stone seat aU round, and in the south waHis the stone pillar upon which was erected the pulpit of the preacher. Theroof of this building is entire, and also that of a passage adjoining. Over thesohave been apartments.
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10 FURNESS ROUTE. PP, passages.—CL, the opposite wing of the cloisters razed to the ground.—QC, the area of the quadrangular court.—PL, a porters lodge and gateway.—M, the mill MR, the mill-race O, the great oven.—NO, the ruins of a build-ing of uncertain extent, supposed to have been the novitiate.—UU, the ruins ofbuildings of uncertain extent and appropriation. The rivulet from the north, which constantly runs through the vaUey, is con-ducted by the east end of the church and side of the cloisters in a subterraneouspassage or tunnel, which is arched over. Another temporary brook from tliewest, has been conducted by NO, and under S, in a similar manner. There hasalso been a subterraneous passage, leading from the race of the riv^ulet, underK, and forwards in an unknown direction. It has probably been conducted under •some part of the church, and has served for a drain or sewer. DIMENSIONS OP THE CHURCH, THE CHAPTER-HOUSE, AND CLOISTERS. The inside length of the ohurch,

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