[11] Some of Mr Poole's reasoning, as to the different parts of the nave to be attributed to different abbots, depends upon an assumption that the Saxon church was on the site of the present one, and that some part of the nave was still existing in a ruinous condition while the present choir and tower were being built. Recent discoveries have proved that this assumption is groundless, for the nave of the Saxon church was beyond the south aisle of the existing nave.
[12] Poole, p. 204.
[13] Paley, p. 54.
[14] Poole, p. 216.
[15] The engraving that accompanies this description represents a dignified altar-piece, but seems taken from a rough drawing, or possibly from memory. On the altar were two tapers burning, an alms dish, and two books. The Abbot's chair, of stone, is to the south, facing west.
[16] "Memoirs of the Protectoral-House of Cromwell," ii, 18.
[17] These shields, which were of metal, are now arranged on the walls of the library.
[18] Where the author has often seen it. It was at last destroyed in a fire.
[19] Museum Criticum, viii, 672.
[20] "Handbook of Architecture," 2nd ed., 1859, p. 869.