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Bolton Abbey is a ruined 12th-century priory in North Yorkshire, England. It gives its name to the parish of Bolton Abbey. Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1686 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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A priory is an ecclesiastical circumscription run by a prior. ...
North Yorkshire is a county, located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. ...
Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2005 est. ...
Bolton Abbey is a civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. ...
Bolton Abbey was founded in 1151 by the Augustinian order, on the banks of the River Wharfe. The nave of the abbey church was in use as a parish church from about 1170 onwards, and survived the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The Augustinians, named after Saint Augustine of Hippo (died AD 430), are several Roman Catholic monastic orders and congregations of both men and women living according to a guide to religious life known as the Rule of Saint Augustine. ...
Linton Falls, on the upper Wharfe near Grassington The River Wharfe is a river in Yorkshire, England. ...
Links to full descriptions of the elements of a Gothic floorplan are also found at the entry Cathedral diagram. ...
A parish church is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches. ...
The Dissolution of the Monasteries (referred to by Roman Catholic writers as the Suppression of the Monasteries) was the formal process, taking place between 1538 and 1541, by which King Henry VIII confiscated the property of the Roman Catholic monastic institutions in England and took them to himself, as the...
 The River Wharf at Bolton Abbey Building work was still going on at the abbey when the Dissolution of the Monasteries resulted in the termination of the priory in 1539. The east end remains in ruins. A tower, begun in 1520, was left half-standing, and its base was later given a bell-turret and converted into an entrance porch. Most of the remaining church is in the Gothic style of architecture, but more work was done in the Victorian era, including windows by August Pugin. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 988 KB) The River Wharf at Bolton Abbey in March 2002. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 988 KB) The River Wharf at Bolton Abbey in March 2002. ...
See also Gothic art. ...
Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Ascension to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian Era of Great Britain marked the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ...
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (March 1, 1812 _ September 14, 1852) was an English-born architect, designer and theorist of design now best remembered for his work on churches and on the Houses of Parliament. ...
Today the Bolton Abbey Estate belongs to the Dukes of Devonshire. The Dukes of Devonshire are members of the aristocratic Cavendish family in the United Kingdom. ...
The Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway terminates at Bolton Abbey. The Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway (E&BASR) is a heritage railway in North Yorkshire, England. ...
Bolton Abbey in popular culture The remains of the priory can still be seen, and the setting is immortalised in a painting by Edwin Landseer. Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer, 1851: the image was widely distributed in steel engravings Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (March 7, 1802 - October 1, 1873) was a British painter, well known for his paintings of animals - particularly horses, dogs and stags. ...
Bolton Abbey was also featured in Alan Bennett's BBC television play, A Day Out (1972) as the destination of a Halifax cycling club's 'day out'. Published by Faber/Profile Books in 2005 Alan Bennett (born May 9, 1934) is an English author and actor famous for his work, schoolboy-like appearance and his sonorous Yorkshire accent. ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ...
This article is about the English town - see Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia for the city in Canada, and Halifax for everywhere else Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, northern England, with a population of about 90,000. ...
The album Faith by The Cure features a foggy picture of the abbey on the front cover. Faith is the fourth album by British alternative rock band The Cure, released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). ...
The Cure are a successful English rock band, widely seen as one of the leading pioneers of the British alternative rock scene of the 1980s. ...
Gallery Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1177x588, 436 KB) The ruined Bolton Abbey, with surrounding buildings and a modern graveyard in front. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 988 KB) The River Wharf at Bolton Abbey in March 2002. ...
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Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2272x1704, 878 KB) Summary 36th Street on Penns Campus Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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External links - Bolton Abbey Estate
- The Priory Church of St. Mary and St. Cuthbert
- Bolton Priory Independant pictures and article
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