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Listing of  Paradoxplace British cathedral, abbey, priory and church pages

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Britain - Photo and History Pages

NORTHERN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND

 

English Kings and Queens from 802 AD to the present

 

OTHER BRITISH PHOTO AND HISTORY PAGES

MAGNA CARTA

SOUTHERN AND SOUTH WEST BRITAIN

WALES, CENTRAL ENGLAND AND EAST ANGLIA

MAPS SHOWING LOCATIONS OF CATHEDRALS AND ABBEYS IN ENGLAND

 

Waltham Abbey - the last English Abbey, closed by Henry VIII in 1540

 

Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s and the 24 medieval cathedrals which emerged after this

 

Books about Cathedrals, Abbeys, Priories and Churches in the UK

 

Melrose Abbey - Cistercian Scottish Border Abbey founded by King David (1146)

Jedburgh Abbey

 

Hexham Abbey Dryburgh Abbey

Rievaulx Abbey - First Cistercian Abbey in Yorkshire (1131)

Fountains Abbey - Second Cistercian Abbey in Yorkshire (1132)

The Cistercians in Britain

 

Byland Abbey - Another large Yorkshire Cistercian Abbey in Yorkshire

 

Whitby Abbey

 

Durham Cathedral - Romanesque masterwork complete with medieval monastic building ensemble

 

York Minster - England's largest medieval church and most interesting chapter house

 

Foot warming in February - choir capital

 

Carlisle Cathedral

Lindisfarne Priory

 

 

The amazing "mint condition" stone font (mid-1100s) in Saint Bridget's Church, Kirkbride.

 

 

The Bewcastle Cross (shaft) (600s) - the oldest around

 

Saint Bridget's Church, Kirkbride

Saint Cuthbert, Bewcastle

 

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