London . stood in Barmsey Abbey many years, in Southwark, takendown. Taken down are the words, not destroyed. If the reader will turnto the engraving at the end of this paper, he will see, in the front of the buildingattached to the chief or north gate, the rude representation of a small cross,with some zigzag, Saxon-Wkc ornaments, the whole being evidently somethingplaced upon or let into the wall, not a part of the original building; and there it * This word wai ofltu used to express an image, or statue. 16 LONDON. remained till the comparatively recent destruction of the pile. Going further
London . stood in Barmsey Abbey many years, in Southwark, takendown. Taken down are the words, not destroyed. If the reader will turnto the engraving at the end of this paper, he will see, in the front of the buildingattached to the chief or north gate, the rude representation of a small cross,with some zigzag, Saxon-Wkc ornaments, the whole being evidently somethingplaced upon or let into the wall, not a part of the original building; and there it * This word wai ofltu used to express an image, or statue. 16 LONDON. remained till the comparatively recent destruction of the pile. Going furtherback, \vc find the same cross in the same situation in 1679, when a drawing wasmade of the remains of the Abbej, which was afterwards engraved by can then, we think, be no doubt, apart from the corroborative evidence oftradition, that this is the old Saxon cross found near the Thames, or that it isa part of the jiicture before which pilgrims used to congregate in the oldconventual [Remains of the Abbey, from a drawing made immediately before their demolition.]
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