Copy 1, Volume 1

Descriptive excursions through South Wales and Monmouthshire. In the year 1804, and the four preceding summers / By E. Donovan.

  • Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837.
Date:
1805
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Credit: Descriptive excursions through South Wales and Monmouthshire. In the year 1804, and the four preceding summers / By E. Donovan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    arches were blocked up with masonry last summer. Of late years the descendants of the Turbervilles seem to have dealt rather scurvily by the “ good vrorks” of their ancestors, if iti no other instance, at least in suffering this ve- nerable edifice to fall into decay, while at a small expense that might have been avoided. The stranger, when he sees the ostentatious mansion that is now almost finished for the family residence of the proprietor of the estate immediately behind the priory house, cannot avoid thinking, that the church might have been considered also, with much propriety, an object highly worthy of his liberality. As a place of worship, nothing can be more dis- graceful. For the want of a few score tiles upon the broken roof, the congregation, when assembled, are exposed in all weathers to the open day, and what must prove still more dis- gusting, to the filth occasioned by a busy swarm of pigeons kept about the priory, whose dung falls at intervals in showers into the church, where it accumulates through neglect,