GLASTONBUUY ABBEY. 9 



Herlevvin, tlie second Norman abbot, is said by William 

 of Malmesbury to have built a new churcli, on which he 

 expended the sum of four hundred and eighty pounds, a 

 very large sum in those days ; he was abbot from 1102 to 

 1120. Henry de Blois, who had been abbot only threc 

 years when he was promoted to the see of Winchester, but 

 was allo'.ved to hold both, is said to have built a Castle, a 

 chapter-house, the cloister, the refectory, the doi-mitory, 

 the iniirmary with its chapel, the outer gate of heum stone, 

 the great brewhouse, and several stables. He held the 

 Charge of this Abbey forty-five years, and died in 1171. 

 Air. Warre was incllned to consider the existing ruins as 

 part of his work, and compared them with St. Gross and 

 other buildings erected by him. 



The whole monastery, including the church, was de- 

 stroyed by a great fire in 1185, which seems to have 

 created a great Sensation. King Henry II. immediately 

 sent his chamberlain, Ealph Fitz-Stephen, to exaraine the 

 ruins, and to take the necessary steps for rebullding the 

 church and monastery ; and so expeditiously was this done, 

 that the new church of St. Mary was dedicated by Regi- 

 nald, Bishop of Bath, in the following year, on the feast of 

 St. Barnabas, 1186. After this the work was stopped for 

 want of funds, and was not completed until 1193. 



The reduced copy of a drawing made by Stukeley, 

 shewing the Abbot's Lodging and the state of the ruins in 

 his time, as given in the present volume, will still further 

 illustrate and explain what remains of the ruins. A 

 ground-plan of the Abbey is likewise given, from Warner ; 

 the details of which are as follows : — The dark portions of 

 this plan designate the existing remains ; the lighter ones 

 represent such as were visible in Stukeley's time. The 

 letters of reference may be explaincd as follows : A, St. 



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