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Description: | The illustration is of the present parish church of Beaulieu, which prior to 1538 was the refectory of the Abbey. We can see, according to the description by John Buckler accompanying the plate, the north end of the refectory, with two windows and beneath them a large and handsomely-shaped pointed doorway, resting on double columns at the sides. The iron hinges of the doors he notes are richly and curiously ornamented. A wooden bell-turret is above.
To the left of the print we can see the triple arches of the west end of the chapter house, taken from the once cloistered quadrangle. For Buckler, "The exterior of this building is plain, and wholly obscured with ivy, large and impervious masses of which are suffered to grow on all the surrounding dilapidated walls."
The print appears in Gentleman's Magazine, December 1820, opposite p 489. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | building refectory church Cistercian Blessed Virgin and Child Beaulieu Abbey chapter house frater abbey | Temporal: | start=1820-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | J C Buckler; John Buckler, Gentleman's Magazine | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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