. The greater abbeys of England . other rewardthan that of the satisfaction of taking part in the greatwork. Five thousand people were present at the feastof the dedication; this assembly included two ab-bots, two earls, two barons and 500 guests in thegreat halls. The rest were entertained in the cloistergarth. During the wars between the houses of Lancasterand York Henry VI came to Crowland in 1460 andremained there for three days. Some time after, on analarm that the Northern army was marching upon thatpart of the country, the cloisters and buildings gene-rally were filled to overflowing wi
. The greater abbeys of England . other rewardthan that of the satisfaction of taking part in the greatwork. Five thousand people were present at the feastof the dedication; this assembly included two ab-bots, two earls, two barons and 500 guests in thegreat halls. The rest were entertained in the cloistergarth. During the wars between the houses of Lancasterand York Henry VI came to Crowland in 1460 andremained there for three days. Some time after, on analarm that the Northern army was marching upon thatpart of the country, the cloisters and buildings gene-rally were filled to overflowing with household goodsof all kinds brought in from the country round 1467 Edward IV also visited Crowland and to-gether with 200 horsemen was entertained by theabbot. The Perpendicular north-west tower was built inthe fifteenth century in the ten years between 1460-70. The beautiful early English sculpture of the le-gend of St Guthlac on the west front was substitutedby Abbot Ralph de la March (i 255-1281) for a por- 64 /.-. ^ m Crowlandtion which had been blown down by a great storm;the upper part, which had seven tiers of canopiedimages, and the great west window were finished in1380. In January, 1470, Abbot Litlington gave fivebells to the tower, which was begun in 1427. Thenave clerestory, built without any triforium in 1405,must have been imposing; it is now a ruin. Themonastery buildings lay to the south of the presentremains; on the west of the abbey court were thegranaries and bakehouse built by John de Wisbech about1470; on the south stood the lesser guest house; onthe east the tailors and other shops and offices andthe hall of the lay brothers; on the north was the maingateway and the almonry The infirmary was appa-rently south-east of the church and the great guesthall on the west of the cloister has an undercroft of threealleys. Crowland, like most of the great and solemn ab-beys of England, came into the hands of Henry VIIIin 1539. The site of the monastery so
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