. Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval . g. xix. b.) Standing House. The chief residence,that from which the furniture wasnever removed. Monastic Structures. A generalichnographical plan of these has beenrequested by a most respectable Sub-scriber ; and such a general arrangementis given by Whitaker in his history of Whalley. Whitaker places Abbies withina close of fifty or ninety acres. Wasthat the case at Glastonbury, West-minster, St. Albans, &c. &c. ? WereMonasteries Seats in parks? The Churchis placed by him on the North side ofthe Cloister. At
. Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval . g. xix. b.) Standing House. The chief residence,that from which the furniture wasnever removed. Monastic Structures. A generalichnographical plan of these has beenrequested by a most respectable Sub-scriber ; and such a general arrangementis given by Whitaker in his history of Whalley. Whitaker places Abbies withina close of fifty or ninety acres. Wasthat the case at Glastonbury, West-minster, St. Albans, &c. &c. ? WereMonasteries Seats in parks? The Churchis placed by him on the North side ofthe Cloister. At Gloucester, &c. it ison the South side; and numerousexceptions might be found to all hisother positions. The fact is, that con-venience or necessity often dictated thesites. In the preceding parts of this Chap-ter wiU be found many other particu-lars, making in the whole a sufficientgrammar for topographical description,excluding that full extent of profes-sional terms, which would defeat theobject of the topographer, by clothinghis description in an unknown Figure of S(. Gcnryc in the Porch of Ruerdean.—See p. 149.
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