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The Porch at Malmesbury Abbey, Malmesbury, Wiltshire

It is thought some of the elaborate carving of the porch (which depicts the 12 disciples) has deteriorated due to gunpowder leakage during the civil war - the gunpowder was kept in the parvise room, which is over the porch.

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