Four Years' Excavations Now Completed Four years of excavations at Whalley Abbey, the great 14th Century Cistercian ruin which is now the property of the Diocese of Blackburn, have now been completed. They have added much to the knowledge of t rear monastic house, states the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post."
The abbey buildings have been di: covered to be much more extensive than was supposed. The plan which has been accepted for centuries has had to be entirely re drawn.
Tiled pavements have been un-vered, the Abbot's Hall—the last Abbot, John Paslew, was hanged by VIII. on the neighbouring hill-as been discovered on what thought to be a virgin site. Blackened stonework has been di closed by the North Wall which supports the local tradition that the Abbey was blown up with gunpowder by the Cromwellians.
There is only one portion of the Abbey left unexplored," Ganon Lambert. Warden of the Abbey, said and that is the old lawn Lying between the cloisters and the Abbot's house. There is no record that this ground was ever built upon
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