The Ruined Abbeys of Great Britain
The Ruined Abbeys of Great Britain
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Daily one stone after another has loos- ened and dropped to earth, the merciful ivy has crept higher and higher in vain effort to stay the slow dissolution, trees have sprung up, waxed great, perished, and given place to their succes- sors. Early in the last century the choir and transepts were cleared down to the pavement level, but this is the only evidence of man's care in the space of two and a half centuries, during which the bells of Rievaulx have been silent in the valley of the Rye.
Of ...the once great church nothing now remains but the interior arcades and walls of the choir (the aisle walls have wholly vanished) and the transepts: the nave is nothing but a mountain range of debris, green with grass and great trees. The walls of the refectory still stand, as do some of those of the dormitory, though these latter are falling daily; beyond lies a dark and won- derful court choked with fallen masonry and thick with trees: this was the quadrangle of the abbot's lodgings; and the last remains of this great building still stand in part as they were left after the destruction of the house at the time of the Great Rebellion, for it is evident [157] RIEVAULX AND BYLAND that, as so often happened, this portion of the house was transmuted into a secular dwelling and served as such for the century between the Suppression and the Civil Wars.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Daily one stone after another has loos- ened and dropped to earth, the merciful ivy has crept higher and higher in vain effort to stay the slow dissolution, trees have sprung up, waxed great, perished, and given place to their succes- sors. Early in the last century the choir and transepts were cleared down to the pavement level, but this is the only evidence of man's care in the space of two and a half centuries, during which the bells of Rievaulx have been silent in the valley of the Rye.
Of ...the once great church nothing now remains but the interior arcades and walls of the choir (the aisle walls have wholly vanished) and the transepts: the nave is nothing but a mountain range of debris, green with grass and great trees. The walls of the refectory still stand, as do some of those of the dormitory, though these latter are falling daily; beyond lies a dark and won- derful court choked with fallen masonry and thick with trees: this was the quadrangle of the abbot's lodgings; and the last remains of this great building still stand in part as they were left after the destruction of the house at the time of the Great Rebellion, for it is evident [157] RIEVAULX AND BYLAND that, as so often happened, this portion of the house was transmuted into a secular dwelling and served as such for the century between the Suppression and the Civil Wars.
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