Xl. WOOL, BINDON, AND LULWORTH MEETING. 



The Rev. W. MILES BARNES observed that this seemed to be 

 the date, not of the building of the house, but of a restoration ; 

 for there was earlier work in the building. The windows might 

 be temp. Henry VIII. Some were new, made to match the old. 



The party then leaving the house, went round to see the 

 barn. Attention was especially attracted by the herring-bone 

 stone work in the north wall and the ancient little cinquefoil 

 window looking on the road. 



The Rev. W. MILES BARNES said that as to the building being 

 a chapel, as it had been thought to be, the fact that the roof 

 was still standing upon it was pretty clear proof that it was not 

 originally a chapel. The roof was a isth century roof of very 

 rough construction. It had never been moved, and there was 

 little doubt that the building was the barn. Then again the 

 building did not orientate. Bindon Abbey, after the Dissolution 

 of the Monasteries, no doubt became a quarry for the whole 

 neighbourhood ; and some of the stones were very likely brought 

 there. He thought for example that the i3th century window 

 must have been so brought. As to the herring-bone work, it 

 would be hard to say that it was Saxon, although it might have 

 been a bit of Saxon work introduced into the building bodily. 

 But the surroundings of it were not Saxon. 



BINDON ABBEY. 



On arrival at the ruins of the Abbey (see illustration} the 

 following paper, prepared from records in the Lulworth Castle 

 Estate Office, was read : 



The abbey was of the Cistercian order, founded in 1172 by Roger, or Robert, de 

 Newburgh and Matilda his wife. William de Glastonia first built it, or began to 

 build it, at Little Bindon on the east side of West Lulworth Cove, where interest- 

 ing remains still exist. Roger de Newburgh removed it to this place. He and 

 his family were great benefactors to it. The patronage of it belonged to them 

 til], as it appears by charter of Henry III., 18th August, 1271, Henry de 

 Newburgh, formerly patron by his charter, gave licence to the abbot and monks 

 to choose whom they pleased to be their patron, and they had elected himself and 

 Queen Eleanor and their heirs to be their patrons. They accepted the election 

 and received the abbey into their protection. Maud Arundell, wife of William 



