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The Abbey is an architectural and aesthetic tour de force. This grand space has been segregated ingeniously and imaginatively into dining and lodging spaces. Guests and dining patrons enter into a soaring space, warmly lit with retrofitted ecclesiastical lighting handsomely accented by ground level amber stained glass windows. The grand fireplace-lit on cooler evenings-is the focal point of the main dining room. Tables are set with crisp linens and the seating is black leather pason type chairs. Inn keeper Christopher Wilson salvaged nearly every piece of architectural “gewgaw" and put them to their highest and best uses. The Bistro Bar's wine "cellar" is the one-time confessional, former pews have many new homes-some became the bar, while others wall paneling beds.
The unassuming stairway to six guest chambers-cleverly named Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, a nod to Genesis' Creation- is necessarily utilitarian and provides mighty contrast to the flamboyant and dazzling spaces beyond. Guest chambers feature vaulted ceilings with skylights, king or queen beds, balconies, gas fireplaces, two-person ultra massage whirlpool bathtubs, climate control, television and telephones and wireless internet. Several rooms feature dramatic and magnificent circular stained glass windows depicting archangels and other Biblical motifs. Each of these glorious bedrooms is harmoniously decorated and lavishly accoutered with creature comfort galore. Fanciful bed linens, wall treatments, custom-made draperies, antiques and quality reproductions, indulgent mattresses and pampering an incomparable location in the former church edifice, make Abbey rooms most desirable.
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