Monastery or convent, under the authority of an abbot or an abbess

Abbaye Royale du Val de Grace, Paris: facade. Etching.

Bird's-eye view of the Abbaye de Montmajour with a key to identify the buildings and grounds. Engraving, 1869 after the original, 1684.

St Bartholomew the Great, London: a conjectural ground plan of the priory around the church. Wood engraving.

Ruins of Netley Abbey with an inset of Netley Hospital. Wood engraving, c. 1900.

x, 153 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 69 unnumbered leaves of plates (12 folded) : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 26 cm

Abbeys / by M.R. James ; with an additional chapter on "Monastic life and buildings" by A. Hamilton Thompson.

42 unnumbered leaves, 288 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves (last blank), 5 unnumbered leaves of engr. plates : coat of arms ; (8vo)

Notitia monastica or a short history of the religious houses in England and Wales / By Thomas Tanner.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 10.3 x 13.9 cm

6 volumes in 8 : frontispiece (portrait), add. engr. title page, illustrations, plates (part double), plans ; (folio)

Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries, as were in manner connected with religious houses in England / Originally pub. in Latin by Sir William Dugdale...[Now ed., enriched with a large accession of materials taken from leiger books, chartularies, rolls, and other documents preserved in the national archives, public libraries, and other repositories; the history of each religious foundation in English being prefixed to its respective series of Latin charters. By John Caley...Henry Ellis...and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel.

1 print : etching ; platemark 33.4 x 43.6 cm

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Abbeys

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Abbeys / by M.R. James ; with an additional chapter on "Monastic life and buildings" by A. Hamilton Thompson.

Notitia monastica or a short history of the religious houses in England and Wales / By Thomas Tanner.

Ruins of Netley Abbey with an inset of Netley Hospital. Wood engraving, c. 1900.

Abbaye Royale du Val de Grace, Paris: facade. Etching.

Abbeys

Images from the collections

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Works from the collections

Abbeys / by M.R. James ; with an additional chapter on "Monastic life and buildings" by A. Hamilton Thompson.

Notitia monastica or a short history of the religious houses in England and Wales / By Thomas Tanner.

Ruins of Netley Abbey with an inset of Netley Hospital. Wood engraving, c. 1900.

Abbaye Royale du Val de Grace, Paris: facade. Etching.

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