Volume: Tintern Abbey photographs - Box 1.

Date:: 1855 - 1928

Location:: Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire

Reference:: FL01503

Type:: Volume containing Photographic material

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Description

50 photographic prints, 10 are albumen prints and 40 are photo-gravures, all except 6 are mounted, showing interiors, exteriors and general views of Tintern Abbey, its church, warming house, sacristy and monk's day room. They show the abbey before and after excavations carried out around 1906/7. Numbers FL01503/001/01 - 034/34 make up the original set of mounted prints, mostly dated circa 1906, FL01503/035/35 - 050/50 are additions to the box. These include late 19th century photographs by Preston and R. Tudor Williams, revealing pre-20th century clearing of the presbytery, plus one post-1913 Office of Works photograph of the south transept.

Content

This is part of the Series: OWS01/06 Boxes of Tintern Abbey photographs, by the H. M. Office of Woods.; within the Collection: OWS01 Office of Works and Successors: Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings

This Volume is divided into 50 Child Records

This Volume contains the following materials:

Photograph (Albumen Print): 10

Photograph (Positive - Mechanical): 40

Photograph Album: 1

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Creator of Archive: Office Of Works

Creator of Archive: Tudor Williams, R

Creator of Archive: Preston

Keywords

Medieval Cistercian Monastery