History of the family of Maunsell (Mansell, Mansel) . ts. The architecture of the Abbey church and buildings appearsto have been in varied styles : Norman, Early English, Early Deco-rated, each has its representative portion. The erection of such largebuildings at that period was an almost incredibly slow business ;and though Margam Abbey was probably commenced about 1147,under Norman influence, it is not surprising to find different ideascreeping in with the lapse of years, while there were, no doubt, latermodifications and reconstructions. The history of these doings isextremely vague, howev
History of the family of Maunsell (Mansell, Mansel) . ts. The architecture of the Abbey church and buildings appearsto have been in varied styles : Norman, Early English, Early Deco-rated, each has its representative portion. The erection of such largebuildings at that period was an almost incredibly slow business ;and though Margam Abbey was probably commenced about 1147,under Norman influence, it is not surprising to find different ideascreeping in with the lapse of years, while there were, no doubt, latermodifications and reconstructions. The history of these doings isextremely vague, however, and the remains of the buildings aloneafford material for a more or less conjectural account of theirarchitectural A portion of the Abbey church, partially rebuilt, was in use formany years as the parish church of Margam, and there are someinteresting Mansel tombs and inscriptions, of which illustrationswill be given. The various members of the family named on thesemonuments are fully dealt with in their proper genealogical THE OLD CHURCH AT MARGAM ; FROM DINELVS PROGRESS. 1 More details may be found in a series of articles by Mr. G. T. Clark, under the title Contributions towards a Cartulary of Margam. Archarologia Cambrensis (third series),Vols, xiii, xiv. CHAPTER VIIOxwich and Penrice Castles, etc. f ?! SHE peninsula of Gower, upon which were situated themanors and castles of Oxwich and Penrice, is a portionof the county of Glamorgan ; but, by reason of theconformation of the coastline, it suggests a certainaloofness almost amounting to insularity. Starting from thewestern extremity of Swansea Day, the coastline runs, with manyirregularities, round to the mouth of the River Dulas, enclosing awell-marked peninsula, of elongated form, some twenty miles inextreme length, and of an average breadth of about eight or ninemiles; at its narrowest part it scarcely exceeds five miles. This tendency to geographical or physical isolation has itsparallel in the
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