Priory Collection (#2)

St. Marie Over's church (now Southwark Cathedral), 1647
St. Marie Over's church in Southwarke (now Southwark Cathedral), 1647. Norman church rebuilt in the Gothic style in the 13th century. Copperplate engraving by Wenceslas Hollar, London, 1647

Kilve Chantry, North Somerset, Early 20th Century
A GWR Publicity view of Kilve Chantry ruins at Kilve in north Somerset. The Chantry (otherwise known as the Priory) was first built in 1329

Snelshall Priory 33421_041
Snelshall Benedictine Priory, a moated priory site and fishponds, Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, 2018

Finchale Priory 34009_015
The ruined priory of Finchale, County Durham, 2018

Thetford Priory 29849_027
Thetford Priory, Norfolk. Remains of Cluniac priory, 2016

Undercroft DP248410
Wenlock Priory, Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Interior view of the undercroft to St Michaels tower in the priory ruins, looking along the south aisle from the east

Tynemouth Castle and Priory 28688_022
Tynemouth Castle and Priory, North Tyneside, 2015

Beauly Priory, Beauly, Scotland, United Kingdom

St Cuthbert Statue at abbey, Lindisfarne, Holy Island, Northumberland, North East England, UK

Beaurepaire Abbey (or Bear Park), County Durham, a ruined manor house near where the Battle of Nevilles Cross took place on 17 October 1346, part of the Second War of Scottish Independence. Date: 1346

Ewenny Priory Church, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
Ewenny Priory Church (Priordy Ewenni) in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales - a monastery of the Benedictine order, founded in the 12th century. Date: circa 1910s

Street scene in Christchurch, Hampshire (now Dorset) with a view of Christchurch Priory. 9th April 1961

England, Dorset, Wareham, River Frome and Priory Hotel

St Bartholomew-the-Great
Engaving depicting St Bartholomew-the-Great in 1737. The Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, is a medieval church in Smithfield within the City of London

Just after dawn earlier today at King Edwards Bay in Tynemouth
England, Tyne and Wear, Tynemouth. Soft morning light just after dawn at King Edwards Bay in Tynemouth with Tymouth Priory in the distance

England, Tyne and Wear, King Edwards Bay. View from Sharpness Point looking across King Edwards Bay towards Tynemouth Priory

France, Occitanie, Lot, Carennac, the priory courtyard

Boxgrove Priory ruins, Boxgrove, West Sussex, England

Blackfriars CC76_00520
Blackfriars, Hereford, 1907. A view looking past the ruins of Blackfriars Friary towards the 14th century Preaching Cross

Blackfriars Preaching Cross BB87_10176
Blackfriars Priory, Preaching Cross, Widemarsh Street, Hereford, 1850-1860. Two men and a woman beside the Preaching Cross in front of the ruins of Blackfriars Priory

Castle Acre Priory BB57_00134
CASTLE ACRE PRIORY, PRIORY ROAD, CASTLE ACRE, KINGs LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Castle Acre Priory BB57_00135
PRIORY OF ST MARY, ST PETER, AND ST PAUL, PRIORY ROAD, CASTLE ACRE, KINGs LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Latton Priory IC306_001
LATTON PRIORY, LATTON BUSH, NORTH WEALD BASSETT, EPPING FOREST, ESSEX. A reconstruction painting showing an oblique view of Latton Priory as it may have appeared in the late 12th century

Lanercost Priory 33809_010
The Church of St Mary and Lanercost Augustinian Priory, Cumbria, 2019

Lanercost Priory 33809_006
The Church of St Mary and Lanercost Augustinian Priory, Cumbria, 2019

Lanercost Priory 33809_004
The Church of St Mary and Lanercost Augustinian Priory, Cumbria, 2019

Boxgrove Priory 33448_015
The ruins of Boxgrove Priory, West Sussex, 2018

Grace Dieu Priory 33576_025
The remains of Grace Dieu Priory, an Augustinian Nunnery founded c.1239 and later a mansion but largely demolished in 1696, Leicestershire, 2018

Grace Dieu Priory 33576_002
The remains of Grace Dieu Priory, an Augustinian Nunnery founded c.1239 and later a mansion but largely demolished in 1696, Leicestershire, 2018

Dunstable 35040_028
Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire, 2021

Wenlock Priory 33343_028
Wenlock Priory, the remains of a Cluniac Priory, Shropshire, 2017

Wenlock Priory 33343_021
Wenlock Priory, the remains of a Cluniac Priory, Shropshire, 2017

Lanercost Priory 28970_024
Lanercost Augustinian Priory, Cumbria, 2017

Finchale Priory 34009_007
The ruined priory of Finchale, County Durham, 2018

St Bartholomews Priory 29845_033
St Bartholomews Priory, Suffolk. Priory chapel and farmhouse, 2016

Forbidding sign DP233552
Lanercost Priory, Lanercost, Burtholme, Carlisle, Cumbria. Detail of a Ministry of Works sign reading Visitors are forbidden to climb on the walls on the side of the priory

Wenlock Priory 34089_018
Wenlock Priory, Shropshire, 2018

Lindisfarne Priory 34014_008
Lindisfarne Priory, Northumberland, 2018. Site of a pre-Conquest monastery and post-Conquest Benedictine cell. NU1241

Boxgrove Priory ZEH01_01_06
BOXGROVE PRIORY, BOXGROVE, CHICHESTER, WEST SUSSEX. Stereoscopic view showing the ruins of the chapter house at Boxgrove Priory

UK, England, Dorset, Christchurch, Christchurch Priory from Christchurch Castle

Ruins of abbey, Lindisfarne, Holy Island, Northumberland, North East England, UK

Priory of Cathedral, Meissen, Saxony, Germany

Europe, United Kingdom, England, Norfolk, Castle Acre, Castle Acre Priory, founded in 1090 by the Cluniac Order and destroyed by Henry VIII, managed by English Heritage

The outlaw John Parricida seeking refuge in a monastery in Pisa, 1308 (engraving)
8625847 The outlaw John Parricida seeking refuge in a monastery in Pisa, 1308 (engraving) by Geiger, Peter Johann Nepomuk (1805-80); Private Collection; (add.info.: The outlaw John Parricida)

Foundation of Melk Abbey, 1089 (engraving)
8625791 Foundation of Melk Abbey, 1089 (engraving) by Geiger, Peter Johann Nepomuk (1805-80); Private Collection; (add.info.: Foundation of Melk Abbey, Lower Austria, 1089)

Leopold V of Austria presenting the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey with a relic of the True Cross
8625853 Leopold V of Austria presenting the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey with a relic of the True Cross, 1188 (engraving) by Geiger

View of the Gothic cloister of the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbe founded at the beginning of the 14th century by
AIS5342024 View of the Gothic cloister of the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbe founded at the beginning of the 14th century by Elisenda de Montcada in Barcelona (drawing); © Iberfoto

Abbey church (Abdijkerk Sint-Servatius)
7142829 Abbey church (Abdijkerk Sint-Servatius). Interior. Confessional. Hendrik Frans Verbruggen (?).; (add.info.: Grimbergen, Belgium); © Paul Maeyaert. All rights reserved 2024

Abbey church (Abdijkerk Sint-Servatius). Interior. South aisle. The altar. 1741-1760
7142826 Abbey church (Abdijkerk Sint-Servatius). Interior. South aisle. The altar. 1741-1760.; (add.info.: Grimbergen, Belgium); © Paul Maeyaert. All rights reserved 2024

Abbey church (Abdijkerk Sint-Servatius)
7142824 Abbey church (Abdijkerk Sint-Servatius). Interior. The high altar. Frans Langhemans. 1701. Detail.; (add.info.: Grimbergen, Belgium); © Paul Maeyaert. All rights reserved 2024

Former abbay. Wall paintings. Louis Bert de l'Arbre. 1870. Neo-Gothic
7142041 Former abbay. Wall paintings. Louis Bert de l'Arbre. 1870. Neo-Gothic.; (add.info.: Hunnegem, Geraardsbergen, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium); © Paul Maeyaert. All rights reserved 2024

Batalha Monastery. Late Gothic architecture
7141091 Batalha Monastery. Late Gothic architecture, intermingled with the Manueline style. Western portal. St John the evangelist. Portugal.; © Pascal Deloche/Godong

Thoronet Abbey. The cloister
7125783 Thoronet Abbey. The cloister.; (add.info.: The Thoronet Abbey. The cloister. Cistercian abbey built in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century)

Thoronet Abbey. Pillar openings of the cloister
7125778 Thoronet Abbey. Pillar openings of the cloister; (add.info.: The Thoronet abbey. Pillar openings of the cloister. Cistercian abbey built in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century)

Thoronet Abbey. Pillar openings of the cloister
7125776 Thoronet Abbey. Pillar openings of the cloister; (add.info.: The Thoronet abbey. Pillar openings of the cloister. Cistercian abbey built in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century)

Eastern arcade of The Cloister of the Thoronet Abbey
7125766 Eastern arcade of The Cloister of the Thoronet Abbey; (add.info.: Eastern arcade of The Cloister of the Thoronet Abbey)

Claustro Real, Batalha Monastery, Portugal (photo)
6436312 Claustro Real, Batalha Monastery, Portugal (photo); Batalha, Portugal; (add.info.: The Royal Cloister. The monastery is a UNESCO World Heritage Site)

Mosteiro dos Jeronimos, Lisbon, Portugal, 16th century (photo)
6436265 Mosteiro dos Jeronimos, Lisbon, Portugal, 16th century (photo); Mosteiro dos Jeronimos, Lisbon, Portugal; (add.info.: The Mosteiro dos Jeronimos, or the Monastery of the Hieronymites)

Mosteiro dos Jeronimos, Lisbon, Portugal, 16th century (photo)
6436201 Mosteiro dos Jeronimos, Lisbon, Portugal, 16th century (photo); Mosteiro dos Jeronimos, Lisbon, Portugal; (add.info.: The Mosteiro dos Jeronimos, or the Monastery of the Hieronymites)

Stained glass window in the Sala do Capitulo or Chapterhouse
6436163 Stained glass window in the Sala do Capitulo or Chapterhouse, Batalha Monastery, Portugal, 1514 (photo); (add.info.: The window shows a triptych of Christ's Passion and dates from 1514)

Bom Jesus do Monte sanctuary, Braga, Portugal, Staircase (photo)
6436149 Bom Jesus do Monte sanctuary, Braga, Portugal, Staircase (photo); Bom Jesus do Monte, Minho, Portugal; (add.info.: Braga, Braga District, Portugal. Bom Jesus do Monte sanctuary)

Capelo do Fundador, Batalha Monastery, Portugal (photo)
6436190 Capelo do Fundador, Batalha Monastery, Portugal (photo); (add.info.: The Founder's Chapel. The monastery is a UNESCO World Heritage Site)

Thoronet Abbey. Pillar openings of the cloister
7125781 Thoronet Abbey. Pillar openings of the cloister; (add.info.: The Thoronet abbey. Pillar openings of the cloister. Cistercian abbey built in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century)

Thoronet Abbey. Arcades of the cloister
7125779 Thoronet Abbey. Arcades of the cloister; (add.info.: The Thoronet abbey. Arcades of the cloister. Cistercian abbey built in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century)

The Sunlight, 1890s (oil on fabric)
XOS5882377 The Sunlight, 1890s (oil on fabric) by Cederstrom, Ture Nikolaus (1843-1924); 47x33.5 cm; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA; (add.info.: Painting by Ture Nikolaus Cederstrom)

La Certosa di Pavia: Washing Trough in the small Courtyard (b/w photo)
8642977 La Certosa di Pavia: Washing Trough in the small Courtyard (b/w photo) by Noack, Alfredo (1833-96); Private Collection; (add.info.: Washing Trough in the small Courtyard)

Tien tung sze, Chekiang, The abbot of the monastery (b/w photo)
8654060 Tien tung sze, Chekiang, The abbot of the monastery (b/w photo) by Boerschmann, Ernst (1873-1949); Private Collection; (add.info.: Tien tung sze, Chekiang, The abbot of the monastery)

Miao tai tze, Shensi, Main Court of Monastery (b/w photo)
8653897 Miao tai tze, Shensi, Main Court of Monastery (b/w photo) by Boerschmann, Ernst (1873-1949); Private Collection; (add.info.: Miao tai tze, Shensi, Main Court of Monastery)

Pu to shan, Fa yu sze, Chekiang, Main court of the monastery (b/w photo)
8654075 Pu to shan, Fa yu sze, Chekiang, Main court of the monastery (b/w photo) by Boerschmann, Ernst (1873-1949); Private Collection; (add.info.: Pu to shan, Fa yu sze, Chekiang)

Orange Garden in Cimiez (engraving)
8648938 Orange Garden in Cimiez (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Orange Garden in Cimiez)

Buckfast Abbey: Church and Monastery, South East (b/w photo)
8649082 Buckfast Abbey: Church and Monastery, South East (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Church and Monastery, South East)

La Certosa di Pavia: The large Courtyard (b/w photo)
8643601 La Certosa di Pavia: The large Courtyard (b/w photo) by Noack, Alfredo (1833-96); Private Collection; (add.info.: The large Courtyard)

Grande Chartreuse monastery, Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse, France (b/w photo)
8626994 Grande Chartreuse monastery, Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse, France (b/w photo) by French Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Grande Chartreuse monastery)

Founding of Seligenstadt Abbey, 826 (engraving)
8626235 Founding of Seligenstadt Abbey, 826 (engraving) by German School, (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Founding of Seligenstadt Abbey by Einhard and Emma, 826)

Duchess Hadwig visiting the Abbey of St Gall, Switzerland (engraving)
8626645 Duchess Hadwig visiting the Abbey of St Gall, Switzerland (engraving) by Hoffmann, Anton (1863-1938); Private Collection; (add.info.: Duchess Hadwig visiting the Abbey of St Gall)

Magyars in the courtyard of the Abbey of St Gall, Switzerland, 10th Century (engraving)
8626642 Magyars in the courtyard of the Abbey of St Gall, Switzerland, 10th Century (engraving) by Muyden

Doorway, Fountains Hall, Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire (engraving)
8676439 Doorway, Fountains Hall, Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire (engraving) by Chase, John (1810-79); Private Collection; (add.info.: Doorway, Fountains Hall, Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire)

Fathers chapel, St Hugh's Charterhouse, Cowfold, Sussex (b/w photo)
8676059 Fathers chapel, St Hugh's Charterhouse, Cowfold, Sussex (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Fathers chapel, St Hugh's Charterhouse)

Monks cells, St Hugh's Charterhouse, Cowfold, Sussex (b/w photo)
8676057 Monks cells, St Hugh's Charterhouse, Cowfold, Sussex (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Monks cells, St Hugh's Charterhouse, Cowfold)

Italian Gardens: La Badia, Forecourt of the Monastery (colour litho)
8666702 Italian Gardens: La Badia, Forecourt of the Monastery (colour litho) by Elgood, George Samuel (1851-1943); Private Collection; (add.info.: La Badia, Forecourt of the Monastery)

BUEIL, John V of (1406-1477). CHARLES VII of France (1403-1461)
CUL4871178 BUEIL, John V of (1406-1477). CHARLES VII of France (1403-1461). King of France (1422-1461), Valois dynasty.; JOAN OF ARC, Saint (1412-1431). English heroine during the Hundred Years War

Renaissance-Plateresque
3499704 Renaissance-Plateresque; (add.info.: Renaissance-Plateresque. 16th century. Royal Pantheon of the Monastery of Santa Maria la Real. Najera (La Rioja, Spain).); PHAS/UIG

Altar front called Frontal de Iguacel
3499646 Altar front called Frontal de Iguacel; Museo Diocesano, Jaca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain; (add.info.: Altar front called Frontal de Iguacel (1300-1315). Detail of The Visitation

Monestry of Sant Cugat del Valles (province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
3499715 Monestry of Sant Cugat del Valles (province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain); (add.info.: Monestry of Sant Cugat del Valles (province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain). 10th to 12th centuries

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