Sujet
St. Benet's Abbey, 1844. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
St. Benet's Abbey, 1844. Ruins of a medieval monastery of the Order of Saint Benedict, on the River Bure within the Broads in Norfolk. It '...appears at a very early period to have borne a high degree of importance as an ecclesiastical foundation, and to have assumed a very belligerent aspect as a fortified place. Founded by royalty (in the reign of Canute), we find it assuming the defensive, and stoutly resisting a very unceremonious visit from royalty, in the reign of [William] the Conqueror...All that now remains of this once magnificent edifice is the gateway, shown above, upon the walls of which a draining-mill has been erected. The ground-plan of the building and its appurtenances may, however, still be traced, and a melancholy contrast drawn, by the help of imagination, between its past grandeur and its present desolation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM21A07_486
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
62,0Mo (4,3Mo) / 42,0cm x 37,0cm / 4960 x 4367 (300dpi)