. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . THE NORTH E^iST VIEW OF RVJHSEY TfVNNERX IN HAAIP Romsey Abbey : North-east View{From a drawing by S. Eff N. Buck, 1773) KINGS SOMBORNE HUNDRED late ioth or early nth-century type, resembling thatof the church at Deerhurst, in Gloucestershire, withapsidal presbytery, shallow transepts flanking asquare central tower, and aisleless nave. This navereceived a south aisle, and perhaps a north aislealso, early in the 12th century or late in the Ilth,and it is possible that when Christina, the sister ofEdgar Atheling, took the veil here in 1086
. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . THE NORTH E^iST VIEW OF RVJHSEY TfVNNERX IN HAAIP Romsey Abbey : North-east View{From a drawing by S. Eff N. Buck, 1773) KINGS SOMBORNE HUNDRED late ioth or early nth-century type, resembling thatof the church at Deerhurst, in Gloucestershire, withapsidal presbytery, shallow transepts flanking asquare central tower, and aisleless nave. This navereceived a south aisle, and perhaps a north aislealso, early in the 12th century or late in the Ilth,and it is possible that when Christina, the sister ofEdgar Atheling, took the veil here in 1086 shebrought an accession of wealth to the abbey whichenabled the nuns to enlarge their church by addingaisles to the nave. The nave was probably about60 ft. long, the normal dimension in an 11th-centurychurch of the larger type, and one handed downfrom early times and often found continued in12th-century buildings. The setting out of the eastern parts of the presentchurch, which was probably begun, as already said,about 1120, is very regular, the site having beenunencumbered, but that of the nave show
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