A Picture of Whitby and Its Environs Author:George Young General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Original Publisher: R. Rodgers Subjects: Fiction / Horror History / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / General Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or miss... more »ing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The demolition of the vails of the abbey church was not attempted by the greedy plunderers, but was committed to the slow hand of time; and though that unsparing agent has done much towards completing the work of destruction, enough still remains, to bear witness to the extent and magnificence of the venerable fabric. This church is, as usual, of a cruciform shape; and has extended above 300 feet from east to west, and above 150 feet from south to north, in the line of the two wings, or transepts. The ruins, which are minutely described in the History of Whitby, Book ii. Chap. 12, present us with a great part of the central tower, 104 feet high, supported by four massy clustered pillars ; the choir, or eastern part of the church, which has lost its south aisle; the north transept, nearly entire ; and considerable portions of the north wall of the nave, and of the western wall, or front of the building. The south side has suffered most; for, along with the south aisle of the choir, the south transept has almost entirely disappeared, and the south wall of the nave is lying a mass of ruins, having fallen about the year 1762. A much larger portion of the north wall of the nave was standing about 30 years ago; at which time also a large window, with some remains of rich tracery, or branched mullions, appeared over the west dour, adding greatly to the beauty of the front view. The appearance of the ruins at that period, as seen from the south-west, is here re...« less