MONKS
CELL
A TOUR OF THE CHURCH
MONKS
CELL
The Monk’s Cell c 1977 This room over the porch now houses the library presented by Sir John English Dolben in 1788. There are 885 volumes in all, Mainly of a theological nature and dating from the C17th., . The parish registers and other records ate also housed here in a recently constructed wall-safe. Before the Reformation, it is possible that a chantry-priest )who may also have been a monk) lived in this room.
(This picture and extract are from John Bailey's book Finedon Revealed, with his kind permission)