Balmerino and its abbey : a parish history with notices of the adjacent district . HALMERINO Al!l;i;V. (_AR1 )0X \IK\V OF I HI: OF THICIIAIlICK-llOLSi;, FROM 1 111-; i;.\>l. ;i:v. ckosics viiav ok ihI; ixtiikiok oi iiii: CHAII IR-IIOUSIO, FROM 111K ICASJ. i?.,;. CHAPTER XII THE ABBEY BUILDINGS AND THEIR EXTRTINCJ RUINS Amid the change mere living brings,Amid these ruins of tlie years,Here surely one can feel the tears—?The slow, dumb tears of mortal things. —G. W, Wood. TiiEitE being no notice of the Abbey buildings in tlie Cliar-tnlary, n
Balmerino and its abbey : a parish history with notices of the adjacent district . HALMERINO Al!l;i;V. (_AR1 )0X \IK\V OF I HI: OF THICIIAIlICK-llOLSi;, FROM 1 111-; i;.\>l. ;i:v. ckosics viiav ok ihI; ixtiikiok oi iiii: CHAII IR-IIOUSIO, FROM 111K ICASJ. i?.,;. CHAPTER XII THE ABBEY BUILDINGS AND THEIR EXTRTINCJ RUINS Amid the change mere living brings,Amid these ruins of tlie years,Here surely one can feel the tears—?The slow, dumb tears of mortal things. —G. W, Wood. TiiEitE being no notice of the Abbey buildings in tlie Cliar-tnlary, nor, so far as is known, any contemporary descrip-tion of theui, the means of determining tlieir original styleand extent, and tlie relative position of certain poiiionsof them, are now very scanty. The greater part has Ion-ago disappeared; but the remains of the Chapter-house, withsome other fragments, still form a picturesque group. Suchmeagre notices as we have of the architecture of the mon-astery were written after it had gone to decay. All tradi-tional accounts, however, represent it as a fabric of greatbeautv. Father Hay, in his Scatid Sacra, says it was for-merly a faire and noble stru
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