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Forde Abbey, Thorncombe, Dorset: detail of the cloister windows

RIBA Ref No RIBA26763
Artist/PhotographerSmith, Edwin (1912-1971)
CountryUK: England
CityThorncombe
Subject Date1520
Image Date1959
ViewExterior
StyleTudor
MediumPhotoprint
Library ReferenceESP/ABB/177 (ES5572)
OrientationPortrait
Colour InfoBlack and white
CreditEdwin Smith / RIBA Collections
SubjectConversion of buildings ; Windows ; Cloisters ; Country houses ; Abbeys ; Restoration
NOTES: A Cistercian monastery was built at the Manor of Thorncombe in c.1148. Rebuilding of the monastery was begun by Abbot Chard, the last Abbot, in 1521 but was interrupted by the Dissolution. In 1539, the Abbot handed the abbey over to the Crown and it was subsequently leased to a succession of private landlords for the next hundred years. In 1649 it was purchased by Edmund Prideaux, Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis and Oliver Cromwell's Solicitor General, who was largely responsible for transforming Forde Abbey from a Monastic residence into a private home. The cloisters form part of Abbot Chard's renovations of 1520.
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