Building the New Library

The south wall of the main library block.	The whole site showing its relationship with the monastery and the Abbey Church.	The north wall.

Pouring concrete for the cloister link to the exisitng monastery building the cemetary is in the background.	More pouring concrete.	The foundation of the north wall of the cloister link .

A trench is dug to lay sewage pipes for the contractors' use.	The top soil is carefully removed for re-use in the monastery garden.	The site from the Abbey Church roof.

The route for the cloister link into the main monastery building, passing along the borth edge of the cemetary,		The top soil removed from the site showing its relationship to the Abbey Church.	The site fencing has been erected carefully to avoid the old apple tree, which has a preserved notice on it.

The contractors began the surveying of the site.

Today, the contractors, Feltham & Co, erected builders' huts on the edge of the Abbey car park, and erected a fence around the area where the library will be built, to the north of the Abbey Church.

The clay which was dug out of the meadow last winter in preparation for possible use of compressed clay walls, will have to be replaced in the hole, as this tecnology is not sufficiently proven for a government grant to be made.

Fr Abbot symbolicly digs the first sod ont he lawn for the library in the company of representatives of the architect and the contrators.