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The South Transept
off the Forbury Gardens, Reading
The
picturesque ruins of the South Transept are all the remains of Reading
Abbey Church. The height of the extant walls gives some impressions of the
enormity of the original building and their curved lines show the transept
to have been of the usual Norman type with small semi-circular chapels
extending off to the east. A small memorial plaque records the closeness
of the grave of King Henry I.