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Ruins of Lindisfarne Priory The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

The caption reads, History Preserving the Monuments of Antiquity. The side View of Lindisfarne, or Holy Island Monastery, Northumberland. Pub. 25 May 1781 by S. Hooper The image is signed, S. Spurrow [...]

Keywords: abbeys, castles, windows, arches, ruins, people, clouds, bare feet, nudity, colour

Places shown: Lindisfarne; Northumberland; England

Added: 2003-02-28

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Reading Abbey (Background 1) The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

Version of the Reading Abbey engraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper).

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey (Background 2) The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

Version of the Reading Abbey engraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and also made darker and with reduced contrast, so it’s less distracting.

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey (Background 3) The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

Version of the Reading Abbey engraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and also made lighter and with reduced contrast, so it’s less distracting.

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey (Coloured version) The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

Version of the Reading Abbey engraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and then coloured (by Liam Quin).

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey (Background 4) The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

Version of the Reading Abbey engraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and also made lighter and with reduced contrast, so it’s less distracting.

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, colour

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey, Plate 1 The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

Publish’d the 24th of May 1784 by S. Hooper. The abbey was founded in 1121 by King Henry I of England, who was buried here. The abbey was closed at the Reformation, and used as a private home for a ti [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Jedburgh Abbey In Search of Scotland (1929)

So these abbeys—Kelso, Jedburgh, Dryburgh, and Melrose—as close together as the abbeys of Yorkshire, preached the gospel of love in a land of hate. They were situated gallantly in the front line like [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, arches, norman architecture, colour

Places shown: Jedburgh; Berwickshire; Scotland

Added: 2008-01-13

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Reading Abbey, Berkshire. The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

Engraving dated 1773. The paper is slightly buckled, sorry.

There is also another image of Reading Abbey.

There is a newer scan of this engraving.

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, people, colour

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 1999-10-28

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Reading Abbey Plate 2 The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

“This plate shews the south view of the remains of this once magnificent abbey, majestic even in its ruins!” (p. 17) The engraving is signed: Jan 24 1773 Godfrey Sc. I scanned this once before: the ol [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, people, greyscale

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2006-11-15

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Arches of Cloister of S. Aubin’s Abbey, Angers A Short History of the English People (1902)

The Abbey of S. Aubin, founded in Merovingian times, seems to have been rebuilt by Geoffrey Greygown and Fulk the Black. “Only one huge tower remains, but fragments of it are still to be seen embedde [...]

Keywords: ruins, pillars, arches, abbeys, occult, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Angers; Maine-et-Loire; France

Added: 2008-07-07

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210.—Edward the Confessor’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey,—now used as the Pix office. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Under its original name of the Isle of Bramble or thorn-ea, Westminster was a place of importance before London existed. [...] “The Saxon king Sebert (597 – 616) built a monastery on the site now occ [...]

Keywords: abbeys, churches, castles, anglosaxon remains, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2005-03-17

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