. The greater abbeys of England . s revenue was estimated at jT 18,000 of our enclosure wall of the monastery surrounded sixty-three acres, and there are many remains of the oldbuildings to prove their extent. The present hotel is saidto have been the abbots lodging. Of the church, thearch, 60 feet in height, on the east of the crossing,remains; the late Perpendicular tower at the west endis 17 feet square, and was built within the late Normannave, which has aisles and is 160 feet long and 65 feetbroad. The transepts are 129 feet across, and haveeastern chapels. The choir extends two
. The greater abbeys of England . s revenue was estimated at jT 18,000 of our enclosure wall of the monastery surrounded sixty-three acres, and there are many remains of the oldbuildings to prove their extent. The present hotel is saidto have been the abbots lodging. Of the church, thearch, 60 feet in height, on the east of the crossing,remains; the late Perpendicular tower at the west endis 17 feet square, and was built within the late Normannave, which has aisles and is 160 feet long and 65 feetbroad. The transepts are 129 feet across, and haveeastern chapels. The choir extends two bays into thenave, and the sanctuary still retains the platform ofthe altar, a sedilia of five canopies, and the wall of the south transept may yet be seenthe dormitory stairs used by the monks when comingto the night office. The domestic buildings are of adate early in the thirteenth century. On the west sideof the cloister was a vaulted crypt of the guest house;on the east is the Chapter House 60 feet in length, 76. Furness Abbeyand the parlour and cloister aumbry. On either side ofthe Chapter House, entered by two doorways, is thecommon room, with a fireplace in it. It is 50 feet long,and is of fourteen bays, having the dormitory above apparently went on in the even tenor ofits ways, without making history in the usual sense ofthe word, from the time of its foundation till the six-teenth century. It had at all times, apparently, a largecommunity, and beyond the thirty choir monks,which was the number constantly maintained, it sentout several colonies to make new foundations. ThusCalder Abbey was its first daughter-house in 11 34, inwhich same year it established Rushin Abbey in theIsle of Man. Fifty years later it colonized Swineshead,but after this time these offshoots were discouraged bythe Cistercian General Chapter. Besides the Englishoffshoots, moreover, there were several Irish foundations,which had intimate relations with Furness, and evenclaim
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