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  1. barefootliam @[email protected] ·

    Llanthony Priory, Vally of the Honddu, Wales, UK, from a 1905 photograph.

    The priory was built around 1200 by Augustinian monks, but was closed at the Dissolution in the 16th century, and fell into a ruin; it was partly reused as a farm.

    Process: Rembrandt Photogravure.

    fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-TheBr

    #ruins #abbey #priory #llanthony #llanthonyPriory #Welsh #wales #vintagePhotograph #hills #cows #romanticRuin #fromOldBooks

    #fromoldbooks #ruins #abbey #priory #llanthony #llanthonypriory
  2. barefootliam @[email protected] ·

    fromoldbooks.org/Creighton-Eng

    This alms-house (low-income public housing they might say today?) was originally a chapel in Warwick, built in 1126 CE. It was used by trade guilds and then became an alms-house in 1571. It is still an alms-house today, almost 500 years later.

    It's also open to the public.

    #warwick #medieval #medievalArchitecture #architcture #tudor #elizabethan #England #building #blackAndWhite #fromOldBooks

    #warwick #medieval #medievalarchitecture #architcture #tudor #elizabethan