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NARRATIVE
ON PRINT - This
picture presents a good view, from outside,
of the chancel, the vestry, and south transept
of the Church. The building which appears
close to the wall of the Church—a vinery
in the garden of the Abbot's House—has
been taken down since the drawing was made
in 1880. The plan of the improvements which
have lately been carried out in this locality
embraces the removal also of the cottages
which appear to the left hand in the picture.
With the consent of the Crown, the Corporation,
in carrying out their improvements about the
Abbey and the Abbey Green, removed a heap
of earth which had covered up the lower courses
of the Chapter House walls, the only remaining
fragment of which building, with the exception
of those foundations of the walls, is the
interesting pillar locally called the 'Pint
Stoup', from a certain general resemblance
of the ruin to that utensil. (Notes
by George Hay, 1883)
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