The antiquities of England and Wales . nly a perpetual curacy, and was certi-fied to the Governors of Queen Annes bounty at 14I. 5s. andhath fmce received an allotment of 200I. from the faid earl of Carlifle is patron (probably by purchafe from theDacres.) At the fupreflion, the annual revenues of this houfe wereeftimated at 77I. 7s. ud. Dugdale; 79I. 19s. Speed; at whichtime, here were a prior and feven canons. This view, whichreprefents the north afpecl of the priory church, was drawnanno 1774. ( PLATE II. ) This priory is fituated in a romantic valley, a fmall diftancenorth of th
The antiquities of England and Wales . nly a perpetual curacy, and was certi-fied to the Governors of Queen Annes bounty at 14I. 5s. andhath fmce received an allotment of 200I. from the faid earl of Carlifle is patron (probably by purchafe from theDacres.) At the fupreflion, the annual revenues of this houfe wereeftimated at 77I. 7s. ud. Dugdale; 79I. 19s. Speed; at whichtime, here were a prior and feven canons. This view, whichreprefents the north afpecl of the priory church, was drawnanno 1774. ( PLATE II. ) This priory is fituated in a romantic valley, a fmall diftancenorth of the river Irthing, and a little to the fouthward of wall. Its remains confifr. of the priory church, and fomefew of the offices of the monaftery, now fitted up for a farm-houfe. The chancel is in ruins, where, amidft fhrubs, brambles, andnettles, appear feveral very elegant tombs of the Dacre family,but much damaged by the weather: the way into one of thevaults beneath is laid fo open, that the flairs leading down are CUMBERLAND. 51 vifible. Here are two ftories or feries of arches, the under onescircular, fupported by columns of great thicknefs, fome cylin-drical, and fome polygonal. About the ruined parts of thisbuilding many am-trees have taken root, and flourifh amongthe disjointed ftones, affording a very picturefque nave is in good repair, and ferves for the parim-church :it has two fide aides divided by pointed arches of a very con-fiderable fpan. On a ftone on the infide of the eaft wall is the following in-fcription: Robertus de Vallibus filius Huberti Domini de GiUandFundator Prioratus de Lanercoft, 1116. ^Edergaini Uxor ejus fine G. Story hujus Ec. PaftorGrato animo hunc lapidem pofuit 1761. Which may be thus tranflated : Robert de Vallibus, the fonof Hubert, lord of Gifland, founder of the priory of Lanercoft, 1116. iEdergane his wife had no children. The Story, A. M. minifter of this church, out of g
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