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Excerpt from The Architectural History of Glastonbury Abbey
The Abbey of Glastonbury is one of those to which a peculiar interest has been always attached. The boldness of its legendary history, which claims for its site the privileges of being that on which the first Christian church was erected in our island, and the burial-place of King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathea also the peculiar architectural character and beauty of the chapel which now bears the name of St Joseph, its singular plan and position; and lastly, the picturesque remains of the great church itself, little inferior to the chapel in beauty, and of the celebrated kitchen and barn -these furnish sufficient grounds for the interest which has been maintained up to our own time, and has made this place the theme of so many writers, ancient and modern, that the subject might appear to have been exhausted in all directions.
Yet it must have been perceived by the readers of these Writers, that the interpretation of the documentary evidence, with reference to its application to the build ings, is still enveloped in indecision and conjecture.
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