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were made in 1834. One represents the nave of the Abbey Church, with an attached chapel on the south side, called the Lady Chapel. There then stood in the burial-ground a very fine, widely-spreading elm, the trunk of which, at several feet above the earth, measured seventeen and a half feet in circumference. The Tower, a massive stone fabric, embattled and supported by strong buttresses, stands at the west end of the church. It is eighty-six feet in height, and was erected about the year 1558. The Lady Chapel, which is probably of Henry the Third's time, is supported by graduated buttresses, ornamented with elegantly formed niches. Beneath it is a crypt (now a charnel house), the fairest, says Fuller, that ever I saw, the roof of which is sustained by groined arches. Brayley's Graphic and Historical Illustrator. The other view represents a small Bridge and Gateway a little to the northward of the Abbey Mills. The gateway is of stone repaired with bricks of remarkably