. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times . A ./^,^.fy rfti/. ^^,. Sk. T J W T ;/7 Ji W A B M K T , Ilillirhdly I fityth Ptc:i Ijjs at SSJ CcrnJuU. 371 north it is bounded by the Wye, and fenced from the cold blasts by ahigh mountain, which, as if for that purpose, towers up almost perpen-dicularly on the Gloucestershire side of the riveri As a work of art, it exhibits a most elegant specimen of Gothic archi-tecture, and its carvings shew that
. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times . A ./^,^.fy rfti/. ^^,. Sk. T J W T ;/7 Ji W A B M K T , Ilillirhdly I fityth Ptc:i Ijjs at SSJ CcrnJuU. 371 north it is bounded by the Wye, and fenced from the cold blasts by ahigh mountain, which, as if for that purpose, towers up almost perpen-dicularly on the Gloucestershire side of the riveri As a work of art, it exhibits a most elegant specimen of Gothic archi-tecture, and its carvings shew that at the time of its erection the arts werenot at that lovy ebb it is usually imagined. His Grace the Duke ofBeaufort, to whom it belongs, merits the public thanks for the care withwhich he causes it to be kept, as well as several other monuments ofantiquity, which are his property, and which may be considered asnational ornaments. This Abbey is moreover still applied to a sort ofreligious use, the keeping of it being intrusted to a poor widow, who byshewing it, gains a comfortable livelihood. Tintern Abbey was founded, anno 1131, by Walter de Clare, brotherto Gilbert Strongbowe, Earl of Pembroke. Several of the Stro
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