Il vecchio e il nuovo London : un racconto della sua storia, della sua gente e dei suoi luoghi . Londra. fBermondsey. da Abbey Street e Long Lane, nella BoroughHigh Street, vicino a Chiesa di St. Georges. Questo,quindi, è il luogo in cui l'antica monasteryonce fiorirono ; ci sono però poco anyremains dell'edificio conventuale lasciato in piedi,e una passeggiata sul sito della grande abbazia di theCluniacs può ora permettersi ma poco la gratificazione.L'intero sito è ora piuttosto ben coperta overwith case moderne e strade sporche e tribunali. La lunga passeggiata, come Charles Knight piacevolmente sentiti un par

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Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . LONDON. fBermondsey. by Abbey Street and Long Lane, into the BoroughHigh Street, close by St. Georges Church. This, then, is the spot on which the ancient monasteryonce flourished ; there are, however, scarcely anyremains of the conventual building left standing, and a walk over the site of the great abbey of theCluniacs can now afford but little gratification.The entire site is now pretty well covered overwith modern houses and dirty streets and courts. The Long Walk, as Charles Knight pleasantly felt themselves a part of the old abbey, and had nobusiness to survive its destruction. They will nothave much longer to wait; little remains to bedestroyed. In the Grange Walk is a part of thegate-house of the east gateway, with a portion of therusted hinge of the monastic doors. In Long Walk, on the right, is a small and filthy quadrangle (oncecalled, from some tradition connected with the visitsof the early English monarchs to Bermondsey, KingJohns Court, now Bear Yard) in which are a few i. OSfcWv.-i- rr/wZ^-- BERMONDSEY ABBEY, 1790. suggests in his London, was once perhaps afine shady avenue, where the abbot or his monkswere accustomed to while away the summer after-noon, but is about one of the last places thatwould now tempt the wandering footstep of thestranger; the Grange Walk no longer leads tothe pleasant farm or park of the abbey, and is initself but a painful mockery of the associationsroused by the name; the Court, or Base Court-yard, is changed into Bermondsey Square, flankedon all sides by small tenements, the handiworkof the builders who completed a few years agowhat Sir Thomas Pope began ; and though sometrees are yet there, of so ancient appearance that, for aught we know, they may have witnessed thedestruction of the very conventual church, yet theyare dwindling and dwindling away, as though they dilapidated houses, v here the stonework, and formand antiquity of tt e windows, aff

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