View S, from the N transept, of the crossing & S transept of Tintern Abbey Cistercian monastic church, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. Founded 1131.

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View S from the N transept of the crossing & S transept of Tintern Abbey Cistercian monastic church, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. Founded 1131 by Walter de Clare, the Norman lord of Chepstow, with monks from L'Aumône, near Chartres, it was the first Cistercian house in Wales. The great rebuilding of the monastery began at the end of the C13th under Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk. The abbey was dissolved in 1536. J. M. W. Turner visted Tintern in 1792 & 1798 painting the ruins several times.

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Size: 3672px × 4880px
Location: Tintern Abbey, Tintern Parva, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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