Lesnes Abbey in the parish of Erith, Kent; being the complete report of the investigations, architectural and historical, carried out by the Works Committee of the Woolwich Antiquarian Society during (14786935323)

Identifier: lesnesabbeyinpar00clap (find matches)
Title: Lesnes Abbey in the parish of Erith, Kent; being the complete report of the investigations, architectural and historical, carried out by the Works Committee of the Woolwich Antiquarian Society during the years 1909-1913
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Clapham, Alfred William, Sir, 1883-1950 Woolwich Antiquarian Society, Wollwich, Eng
Subjects: Lesnes Abbey
Publisher: London Cassio Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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LESNES ABBEY. Plate XX. Between p.p. HO and 61.
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THE WATER SUPPLY 61 would certainly have been the case had the builders had the Abbey ruins to quarryfrom. This is the last of the Abbey buildings about which anything definite can be said.The outbuildings of the present farm, many of them, with the garden and orchardwalls, are of early 17th-century date and contain numerous moulded stones, fragmentsof shafts and other details dug up on the Abbey site, probably when Sir John Hippersleydug through the Church for building materials. On the Christs Hospital plan a poly-gonal or circular dove-cote is shown a little to the north-east of the Dorter, but thishas entirely disappeared. THE WATER SUPPLY The water supply, always an important part of the domestic economy of amediaeval monastery, was evidently well provided for at Lesnes. Owing to the absenceof any natural stream (of any size) in the immediate neighbourhood, it became necessaryto store the rain or surface water in some sort of reservoir. The Abbey stands at thefoot of a small gull