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Title: Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey
A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of Ss. Mary & Ethelfleda

Author: Thomas Perkins

Release Date: October 3, 2007 [eBook #22880]

Language: English

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A SHORT ACCOUNT OF ROMSEY ABBEY

A Description of the Fabric and
Notes on the History of the
Convent of Ss. Mary & Ethelfleda

by

THE REV. T. PERKINS
Rector of Turnworth, Dorset
Author of "Amiens," "Rouen," "Wimborne and Christchurch," Etc.

With XXXII Illustrations

[Illustration: ROMSEY ABBEY FROM THE EAST]

[Illustration: Abbess's Seal]

London George Bell and Sons 1907

Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co.
Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London.

PREFACE

The architectural and descriptive part of this book is the result of
careful personal examination of the fabric, made when the author has
visited the abbey at various times during the last twenty years. The
illustrations are reproduced from photographs taken by