vertical portrait photo of the ruined remains of Bolton Abbey priory in yorkshire

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vertical portrait photo of the ruined remains of Bolton Abbey priory in yorkshire The land at Bolton was granted to the Augustinian Canons in 1154 by Lady Alice de Rumilly It is thought that she gave the Canons the land as an expression of her grief for her son the Boy of Egremont who drowned in the Strid in the River Wharfe After the dissolution of the monastries in 1539 the nave of the Priory was allowed to continue as a parish church All the other priory buildings were stripped of their lead roofs leaving the stone work exposed to the elements

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Photo credit: © Michael Sayles / Alamy / Afripics
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