Identifier: sussexarchaeolog08suss (find matches)
Title: Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Sussex Archaeological Society. 1n
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Publisher: Lewes, Eng. (etc.) Sussex Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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altars of the Holy Cross, St. Mary, or St. Catherine and themany lamps and candles which the donors intended to burnnight and day for ever before them, are all put out. Twoold rusty keys, a few foundations near a barn, some scatteredstones of carved mouldings, some of which are incrusted inmodern walls, have been found, and there is a tradition thatthe east window of Rogate church was taken from the ruinsof the abbey. Of all the great and good, who may have been here buried,one monumental stone alone, probably of the thirteenth cen-tury, remains, placed upright in a modern wall. From thisall name and date are effaced, though, as if in mockery, thewords vir pie memorie33 still remain legible on it. Theformula of inviting the prayers of the pious for the repose ofthe soul of this now forgotten Christian, imperfectly trace-able, seems to have run thus:— Jgtc SCjmltttg egt fair ptememorie ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ annua ejus per mtsertcortitam 3@etrequteseat in paee, glmen* (See woodcut, p. 96.)
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South Front of Dureford Priory. DUREFORD ABBEY. 95 Some part of the ancient structure seems to have beenconverted into a dwelling-house, and of this drawings, now inthe British Museum, were taken in 1782, by S. H. Grimm.71From copies of these the accompanying woodcuts have beenmade; but no remains of such a building now exist, and itmust have been wholly demolished by the proprietor, LordStawell, two years after the views were taken by Grimm, tomake way for the modern farm-house which now occupies thesite, and on the east front of which is inscribed, 1/ S. 1784. No impression of any seal of Dureford Abbey has beenfound.

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