Forde Abbey, Thorncombe, Dorset: detail of the cloister windows
Artist/Photographer | Smith, Edwin (1912-1971) |
Country | UK: England |
City | Thorncombe |
Subject Date | 1520 |
Image Date | 1959 |
View | Exterior |
Style | Tudor |
Medium | Photoprint |
Library Reference | ESP/ABB/177 (ES5572) |
Orientation | Portrait |
Colour Info | Black and white |
Credit | Edwin Smith / RIBA Collections |
Subject | Conversion 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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