The Checker, Abingdon Abbey. Originally used as accounting office and document store for the Abbey.

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The Checker, Abingdon Abbey, Oxfordshire, c. 1260. The name "Checker" or exchequer suggests it was used as accounting office and document store for the Abbey. Features steeply pitched roofs, tall stone chimney and heavy buttresses.

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Location: Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Photo credit: © Angelo Hornak / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: 13th, abbey, abingdon, buttress, century, checker, chimney, exterior, medieval, oxfordshire, roof, stone, thirteenth