Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire
Artist/Photographer | Coney, John (1786-1833) |
Country | UK: England |
City | Whitby |
Subject Date | 1200 |
Image Date | 1815 |
View | Exterior |
Style | Gothic |
Medium | Print |
Library Reference | SR. 726.7(42) |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Black and white |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Churches ; Ruins ; Abbeys |
SOURCE: William Dugdale. Monasticon anglicanum (London, 1849), vol. I, after p. 404 NOTES: The original Benedictine monastery founded on this site in c. 657 fell to Viking attack in 867 and was abandoned. It was re-founded in 1087 and a new abbey was built during the 13th and 14th centuries. It was dissolved in 1540 and abandoned.
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