Items in Howden

1023.—Howden Church

The perfect Romantic Ruin, an abbey that was once a place of worship and a seat of power, and has now fallen so low that cattle graze where there was once a High Altar. A poem written by William Words [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, arches, cattle, animals, churches

Places shown: Howden; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2006-02-13

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1023.—Howden Church (detail for use as computer desktop background image)

A detail taken from the engraving of Howden Church, sized so that it makes a good screen background, or desktop wallpaper; cows graze in the ruins of a mediæval monastery.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, churches, ruins, abbeys, cattle, arches

Places shown: Howden; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2006-02-13

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