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

by Rev. Thomas Perkins

• St. Barbe John, monument of, [60].
• Saxon carving, [56].
• Screen, choir, [59].
• Suppression of the nunnery, [77].

• Tomb of priest, [62];
  • of unknown lady, [60].
• Tower, top, [24];
  • interior, [49].
• Triforium, [44], [46].

• Vaults, [39], [48].

• West front, [29].
• Western (Early English) addition, [20], [43].
• Windows, east, [21], [28], [64];
  • west, [63].

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DIMENSIONS

Total length of church, including buttresses	263	feet.
” ” from outer faces of walls	256	”
Total width of nave and choir from outer faces of walls	86	”
Total length of transept: exterior	140	”
” ” interior	127	”
Length of nave, interior	165	”
” choir ”	54	”
Width of retro-choir, interior, east and west	15	”
” nave, interior, between centre of piers	39	”
” aisles, interior, from centre of piers to walls	18	”
Height of nave walls to wall plate	70	”
Height of tower	93	”
Length and breadth of tower, interior	28	”
Total area	21,470 square feet.