IMAGES OF MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

WALES: TINTERN ABBEY

Location

Adapted from Shepherd, Plate 97
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Plans and Drawings

Floorplan
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Elevation
Dehio, Plate 431
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West End
Dehio,Plate 431
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Cross Section
Dehio,Plate 599
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Preliminary Notes

Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967
The Setting
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West Facade

Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967
From West
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South Side
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Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967
Tracery of West Window
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Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967
Portal
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Nave

Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967
Elevation
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Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967
Looking from Choir into Nave
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Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967
Crossing
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East End

Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1976
Through West Door
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Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967
From West
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Preliminary Bibliography

Tintern Abbey: preservation of the structure. Corp Author: Tintern Abbey. Publication: London, 1905

Tintern Abbey, County Wexford : Cistercians and Colcloughs : eight centuries of occupation Saltmills, County Wexford [Ireland] : Friends of Tintern, 1993

Brakspear, Harold. Tintern Abbey : Monmouthshire / By Harold Brakspear F.S.A. [London] : Printed by H.M. Stationery Off., 1921.

Cram, Ralph Adams.Ruined Abbeys of Great Britain  Boston, Marshall Jones Co, 1927

Craster, O. E. (Oswin Edmund).Tintern Abbey : Gwent Abaty Tyndyrn / by O. E. Craster. Abaty Tyndyrn, Gwent London : H.M.S.O., [1975 ]Series: Great Britain. Ministry of Public Building and Works. Official guidebooks

Heath, Charles. Descriptive account of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, selected from various writers. Monmouth, 1806

James, M.R. Abbeys London, The Great Western Railway, 1926.

Potter, Joseph. Remains of ancient monastic architecture in England : represented in a series of views, plans, elevations, sections, and details, with historical and descriptive accounts of each London : Weale [etc., 1847

Sharpe, Edmund Plans, elevations, and sections of the capitals, bases, arch-mouldings, window-jambs and arches, vaulting-ribs, string-courses, parapets, and other details of the following abbey churches: Fountains, Kirkstall, Buildwas, Furness, Roche, Byland, Jervaulx, Hexham, Whitby, Netley, Bridlington, Tintern, Guisborough, Howden, Selby. Containing examples of the Transitional, Lancet, Geometrical and Curvilinear periods of English Architecture. London, 1870

Taylor, John. Tintern Abbey and its founders Cwmbran : Gwent County Council Libraries, 1994 1869

Wood, J. G., and others Some features of the monastic buildings disclosed by recent excavations within the precincts of Tintern Abbey. Newport, Mon., 1912



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