. The greater abbeys of England. TINTERN lights, and it needs little imagination to picture what aglorious sight it must have been when filled with paintedglass. The central arch at the crossing was 70 feet high, andthe choir extended one bay into the nave. The cloisterswere 111 feet on two sides, and 99 feet on the other two,and the offices were arranged in the usual manner of Cis-tercian houses; owing to the position of the ground, thedomestic buildings were on the north side of the these very little indeed remains of interest; they havebeen gradually utilised in the building of co
. The greater abbeys of England. TINTERN lights, and it needs little imagination to picture what aglorious sight it must have been when filled with paintedglass. The central arch at the crossing was 70 feet high, andthe choir extended one bay into the nave. The cloisterswere 111 feet on two sides, and 99 feet on the other two,and the offices were arranged in the usual manner of Cis-tercian houses; owing to the position of the ground, thedomestic buildings were on the north side of the these very little indeed remains of interest; they havebeen gradually utilised in the building of cottages, roadsand pigstyes in the neighbourhood. From the accounts of the abbey given by the abbot,Richard Wych, for the Valor Ecclesiasticus in 1535, itappears that the abbey had a gross income of £356 This was greatly reduced by necessary payments,fees and pensions, etc. According to the charter offoundation the porter, laundress, church-clerk and ferry-men had large carrodies or annual payments, which, how-ever, were
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