. The tourist's picturesque guide to Furness Abbey and Windemere district ... genous to the district, and both may be found invarious places, as the coasts of Methop, Cark, andWaluey. The middle archway forms an open porch with agroined and vaulted roof, the sides having beenoriginally ornamented with neat marble columns sup-porting an arcade of six trefoil-headed niches. This isthe entrance to the Chapter House, A four-sided room, 60^ feet by 45i feet, the vaultedroof long fallen in, having been 24 feet in height, andsupported by two rows of slender fluted columns, threein each. More decorati
. The tourist's picturesque guide to Furness Abbey and Windemere district ... genous to the district, and both may be found invarious places, as the coasts of Methop, Cark, andWaluey. The middle archway forms an open porch with agroined and vaulted roof, the sides having beenoriginally ornamented with neat marble columns sup-porting an arcade of six trefoil-headed niches. This isthe entrance to the Chapter House, A four-sided room, 60^ feet by 45i feet, the vaultedroof long fallen in, having been 24 feet in height, andsupported by two rows of slender fluted columns, threein each. More decoration appears to have been lavishedon this apartment and the chancel than on any otherportion of the edifice. Here the Lord Abbot, paramountruler in Furness, sat in state on high official occasions,and here the business transactions of the communitywere conducted. It was in this place where, in solemnconclave assembled, the last of the abbatical rulers, inthe presence of the commissioners of King Henry VIII., V v. Lit ? --x- <* -A w,- / ? 4v--^l ???? v-s^^si m^. CHAPTER HOUSE, FUENESS ABBEY. CHAPTER HOUSE. 37 signed the fatal deed of surrender, by which at one fellswoop he and his brethren were deprived of theirproud position, and the accumulated wealth of fourcenturies. The walls have been wrought into compart-ments, some of which are pierced by lancet roof of this room fell in suddenly more than acentury ago. Over the chapter house was the Scriptorium, Or library, approached from the south transept, wherethe brethren laboured with exemplary patience at thosewonderful illuminated manuscripts which we have tothank for much of our ^Dresent knowledge of the historyof past ages. Eeturning to the cloister-court, we enter,by two smaller and less elaborate semicircular arches,the Refectory. This great diniug hall measures 200 feet in length by31 feet in breadth, and once possessed a vaulted roof,groined from the corbels still visible to the heavyeight-sided columns whose
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