| Ruins of Lindisfarne PrioryThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (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 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Reading Abbey (Background 1)The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (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 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Reading Abbey (Coloured version)The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (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 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1036x752, 1382x1003, 1842x1337, 275x200, 777x564 | Reading Abbey, Plate 1The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (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 + S K L R N |
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1266x1710, 148x200, 534x721, 712x961, 950x1282 | Jedburgh AbbeyIn 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 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Arches of Cloister of S. Aubin’s Abbey, AngersA 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 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1190x979, 1587x1305, 243x200, 893x734 | 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 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Holyrood Palace From the Public Gardens Under Calton HillEdinburgh (1912) “Holyrood Palace stretches across the picture east and west, and is dominated by Arthur’s Seat and Salisbury Crags. The dark turret at the west end of the nearest and north wing contains the private s [...] Keywords: abbeys, manors, cities, houses, trees, mountains, birds, palaces, views, cityscapes, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland Added: 2005-07-21 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 389.—Ruins of reading Abbey in 1721.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Reading Abbey was founded in 1121 by King Henry I; it became very wealthy, no doubt in part because of the corruption that was endemic to the Roman Catholic Church. At the Dissolution of the Monasteri [...] Keywords: abbeys, ruins, arches, people, animals, wallpaper, backgrounds, anglosaxon remains, greyscale Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England Added: 2005-05-22 + S K L R N |
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1158x780, 1544x1040, 297x200, 869x585 | Kelso: The River Tweed and Abbey RuinsThe Scott Country (1920) Kelso is a town in the Borders; the abbey was mostly destroyed at the English Reformation.“Walter Scott as from his childhood, at Sandyknowe and Kelso, familiar with Border scenes, as well steeped in [...] Keywords: bridges, abbeys, ruins, towers, water, trees, colour Places shown: Kelso; Roxburghshire; Scotland Added: 2004-02-27 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Remains of Valle Crucis AbbeyThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875) “It was exactly in the year 1200 that Madoc, Lord of Bromfield, at the time when Prince Llewellyn was contending with King John, founded this monastic house in a deep hollow, already called the Valley [...] Keywords: churches, ruins, abbeys, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Llangollen; Denbigh; Wales Added: 2005-07-12 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Ramsey Abbey in HuntingdonshireThe Antiquities of England and Wales (1786) Ramsey Abbey was a Benedictine abbey founded in 969; it was closed at the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and the stone was later used to build a number of Cambridge colleges. Today, part of what is l [...] Keywords: ruins, abbeys, buildings, churches, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Ramsey; Huntingdonshire; England Added: 2011-01-09 + S K L R N |
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