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The architecture of Bafingwerk is mixed, 

 being partly Saxon and partly Saracenic, or 

 What is generally called Gothic. The 

 round arches and fhort mafTy columns 

 mewing the Saxon, and the narrow pointed 

 windows the Gothic parts. 



Tanner * and Dugdale -f- fuppofe this 

 abbey to have been founded about 1131 by 

 Ranulph Earl of Chefter, and to have been 

 afterwards confirmed by Henry II. and 

 Llewelyn Prince of North Wales : and Mr. 

 Pennant J conjectures it to be of a more an- 

 tient date, whilft many of the old writers 

 afcribe the original foundation to Henry 



H. 



The 



* Notitia Monaftica. 



t Monaflicon Anglicanum, I. 720. 



^ Pennant's tour, I. 24. 



Stow's Annals, 158. Leland's Colle&anea, 

 I. loi. According to Henry de Knyghton and 

 John Bromton, it was not founded till after 1150. 

 See Hen. de Knyghton de event. Angljas, p, 2394. 



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