. The greater abbeys of England . s of the romantic riverWye, and backed by a semicircle of heavily woodedhills, the abbey church still remains almost entire asregards its main architectural features. For the unri-valled beauty of its situation and for its completenesseven in its ruined state Tintern is thought by manyto stand first among similar memorials of the wantondestruction wrought in the sixteenth century. Our. Lady of Tintern was founded in 1131 for theCistercian Order by Walter de Clare, the grandson ofWalter Fitzosbert, Earl of Ew, to whom the Con-queror had granted the land in this
. The greater abbeys of England . s of the romantic riverWye, and backed by a semicircle of heavily woodedhills, the abbey church still remains almost entire asregards its main architectural features. For the unri-valled beauty of its situation and for its completenesseven in its ruined state Tintern is thought by manyto stand first among similar memorials of the wantondestruction wrought in the sixteenth century. Our. Lady of Tintern was founded in 1131 for theCistercian Order by Walter de Clare, the grandson ofWalter Fitzosbert, Earl of Ew, to whom the Con-queror had granted the land in this part which hecould obtain by his victories over the Welsh. Walterde Clares son, Gilbert Stronbow, became the first Earlof Pembroke, and when he came to die in 1148, as agenerous benefactor he was buried in the church atTintern. His son, again, was Richard de Clare or Stron-bow, known to history as the conqueror of Ireland inthe reign of Henry II. It has been thought by somethat he, too, was buried in the abbey his family had 190. Tinternfounded, and that a cross-legged effigy of a knight inchain armour still to be seen in the ruins is his monu-ment. The monks to colonise Tintern came from theabbey of Aumone, in the diocese of Chartres. Thismonastery had itself been begun only ten years before,but had increased sufficiently to find an abbot andtwelve monks for the new venture in England—aninstance of the rapid growth of the Cistercian move-ment in the first half-century of its existence. Indeed,the multiplication of these houses proceeded at such arate that it became necessary to put a stop to it in thethe General Chapter of the Order. The style of the church is Transitional from EarlyEnglish to Decorated; it was begun in the first founda-tion of the abbey by Walter de Clare, and was onlyfinished in 1287, 156 years later. It was almost entirelyrebuilt in the thirteenth century by Roger Bigod, Earlof Norfolk. Though roofless, this beautiful specimenof architecture remains almo
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