COLLECTED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS, AND DRAWN UP FROM REPEATED SURVEYS

Df that Uenerable fabric.

WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF ITS MONUMENTAL STRUCTURES, AND AN ACCOUNT OF ITS CHAPELS,

ALTARS, SHRINES, AND CHANTRIES.

ALSO COMPRISING

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE LIVES OF THE ARCHBISHOPS, AND

DEANS OF CANTERBURY;

AND

HISTORICAL NOTICES OF THE CELEBRATED

Convent of Christchurch;

WITH LISTS, AND INTERESTING PARTICULARS OF ITS DEANS, PRIORS, AND DISTINGUISHED MONKS.

By W. WOOLNOTH;
CONTAINING TWENTY PLATES, ENGRAVED BY HIMSELF, FROM DRAWINGS BY

T. HASTINGS,

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL LIVERPOOL ACADEMY.

LONDON:
Printed by Nichols, Son, and Bentley, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street.
PUBLISHED BY T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, STRAND; AND J. MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET;

AND SOLD BY R. AND W. C. WARDER, CHANGE ALLEY; E. GREENLAND, FINSBURY SAUARE;

AND CRIBB AND SON, HOLBORN:
AND AT CANTERBURY, BY ROUSE, KIRKBY, AND LAWRENCE, AND WOOD AND GOODWIN.

1816.

TO THE MOST REVEREND

CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, ,

BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE

Lord archbishop of Canterbury ;

PRIMATE AND METROPOLITAN OF ALL ENGLAND;

AND ONE OF THE LORDS OF HIS MAJESTY'S

MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL;

THIS WORK

IS, WITH HIS GRACE'S PERMISSION,

MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

BY HIS GRACE'S

MUCH OBLIGED,

AND MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT,

WILLIAM WOOLNOTH.

May 1, 1816.