Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire

RIBA Ref No RIBA5621





Artist/Photographer	Smith, Edwin (1912-1971)
Country	UK: England
City	Whitby
Subject Date	1200
Image Date	1954
View	Exterior
Style	Gothic
Medium	Photoprint
Library Reference	ESP/ABB/565 (ES1353.1)
Orientation	Portrait
Colour Info	Black and white
Credit	Edwin Smith / RIBA Collections
Subject	Landscape ; Abbeys ; Ruins ; Stone

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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