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The only portion of the Priory buildings which remained standing was the range of buildings to the south of the cloisters. This includes the parlour leading into the former cloisters, the buttery (an undercroft) and above it what was originally the prior's chamber or guests' hall. This was at some
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The couple's first child, Elizabeth, was born in 1900 and their son, Matthew, in 1904. All the family are musically portrayed in Hubert Parry's delightful piano pieces
Shulbrede Tunes. While at Oxford in the 1920s Matthew became a friend of Evelyn Waugh, and his sister, Elizabeth, whose exotic life
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As built, it was very much larger than the portion now surviving. To the north was a cruciform church oriented towards an east facing altar, with north and south transepts dividing the nave from the chancel. The length of the church, from east to west, was about 140 ft (43 m) and, from
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point divided into smaller rooms, and one of the partition walls was decorated with wall paintings, which can still be seen. The paintings are of birds, animals, women in
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Elizabeth Ponsonby (b. 26 Dec 1900; dsp. 31 Jul 1940), mar. 5 Jul 1929 (div. 1933) as his first wife John Denis Cavendish Pelly (b. 23 Jul 1903; d. 1989), 1st son of Maj William Francis Henry Pelly by his wife Rosa Theodora Davy, dau. of William Vinicombe
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the north to the south transepts, about 98 ft (30 m). To the south of the nave were cloisters, around which were grouped a
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