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Edingdon Monastery. 



The chancel, outside, has undergone a scraping, which gives it 

 a newer appearance than the rest of the Church. Eight of the 

 pinnacles are gone. The present four are modern. 



In the Churchyard, on the left of the south porch is a very 

 ancient altar-tomb called the " Dole-stone/'' on which certain loaves 

 are distributed. On the right is the base of a churchyard cross. 

 On the east side of the cemetery is a fine old yew tree, the girth at 

 3 feet from the ground about 21ft. 3in. On the churchyard wall 

 is an old tomb with panelled sides, but no inscription. 



The tracery of the Tower window is worked in the pattern of a 

 cross moline. The west window of the south aisle has tracery of 

 the same pattern, but the cross is in saltire. 



Remains of the Monastery. 



Of these there is little left. As above mentioned, the cloister 

 ran along the north side of the Church. Part of the monks' dwell- 

 ing is now a farm house with gabled front, flanked by two embattled 

 square towers of later addition. Of this there is a wood-cut in the 

 Gentleman's Magazine of 1846: but the central gables there repre- 

 sented have been taken away. There is nothing remarkable in the 

 interior. One room, lined with oak, is called "The Chaplain's/' 

 but bears neither date nor ornament. Of the Monastery when 

 entire no plan is known to have been preserved. Its destruction by 

 Mr. Bayntun and Mr. Joshua Smith has been already mentioned. 

 There was, within living memory, a wall 7 feet high and £ feet 

 thick which led from the house to the Church, into which it was 

 built : and was strengthened by some singular semicircular buttresses 

 with conical caps. 



The fish-ponds, which were turned into withy-beds when Mr. 

 Joshua Smith purchased the property, were restored to their original 

 use in 1856, by the present owner. 



Fountain- Cell. 



There are four springs of water near the site of the monastery : 

 and over the southernmost a stone building or fountain-cell, erected 

 by the monks, is in fair preservation. It is 8 feet high by 4 feet 



