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Abbeys

Images

  • 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.
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Catalogue

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

    James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862-1936. | Date: 1926
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    Notitia monastica or a short history of the religious houses in England and Wales / By Thomas Tanner.

    Tanner, Thomas, 1674-1735. | Date: 1695
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    An architectural handbook of Glastonbury Abbey : with a historical chronicle of the building / by Frederick Bligh Bond.

    Bond, Frederick Bligh, 1864-1945. | Date: 1920
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    Ruins of Netley Abbey with an inset of Netley Hospital. Wood engraving, c. 1900.

    | Date: 1900 | Reference: 23738i
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    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.

    Dugdale, William, 1605-1686. | Date: 1846
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