The historical information has been derived from many sources. Among these may especially be mentioned “An Essay descriptive of the Abbey Church of Romsey,” by C. Spence, the first edition of which was published in 1851; the small official guide sold in the church, and “Records of Romsey Abbey, compiled from manuscript and printed records,” by the Rev. Henry G. D. Liveing, M.A., Vicar of Hyde, Winchester, 1906. This last-named work contains all that is at present known, or that is likely to be known, of the history of the abbey from its foundation early in the ninth century up to the year 1558. To this book the reader who desires fuller information and minuter details than could be given in the following pages is referred.
The thanks of the writer are due to the late and present Vicars for kind permission to examine the building, and to take photographs of it from any point of view he desired.
Turnworth Rectory,
Blandford, Dorset.
March, 1907.
CONTENTS
| page | ||
| Chapter I. | [History of the Building] | 15 |
| II. | [The Exterior] | 27 |
| III. | [The Interior] | 39 |
| IV. | [The Abbesses of Romsey] | 67 |
| [Vicars of Romsey] | 79 | |
| [Index] | 81 | |
| [Dimensions of the Abbey Church] | 82 |