2l6 ' SHREWSBURY. 



town, in a direQ:ion nearly oppofite to this, is the 

 other, called the We//h bridge. This is a late erec^ 

 tlon. The ancient bridge had a gate, and towers 

 at each end, a necefiary defence againft the turbu- 

 lent neighbours on that fide of the water.. 



Shrewsbury Abbey 



Is fituated in the fuburbs of the town, a little be-, 

 yond the (lone bridge. The prefent remains confifl 

 of only the weil part, from the crofs ifle to the weft 

 tower. The choir, the cloifter, and chapter-houfe, 

 are entirely deftroyed. Of the fide ifles, the arches 

 are yet left, and the eaft end of the prefent church 

 is a modern wall that has been run up betwixt two 

 of the ancient columns. It is fuppofed to have 

 been made parochial ; and to have received this 

 addition in the reign of queen Ehzabeth. The 

 great tower is fiill left, and contains a fine gothic 

 window, over which is a ftatue, fuppofed to reprefcnt 

 the founder, Roger de Montgomery. The whole 

 building is of the fame kind of red ftone as the caftle, 

 and, except the v/eft window, is in the Norman 

 gothic flile of architedlure, with plain arches, and 

 maffy columns. — On the fouth fide of the altar 

 there is a recumbent iigure, in a coat of mail, and 

 in the aft of drawing a fword,. which is believed to 

 have been the monument of Montgomery* An in- 

 fcription intimates that it was difcovered among the 

 I'uins of the abbey, and that, in 1622 y it had been 

 I di reeled 



