In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the artist Thomas Hearne (1744 – 1817) and engraver William Byrne (1743–1805), began work recording and illustrating a series of historic monuments for The Antiquities of Great Britain. They produced two volumes of these works, the first in 1778 and the second in 1807, both of which were very popular and helped to bring new interest into medieval architecture.
Here are fifteen beautiful images of castles, abbeys, cathedrals and other medieval sites around England from the second volume of The Antiquities of Great Britain:
Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire
Warkworth Castle, Northumberland
Micklegate, City of York
Tynemouth Priory, Tyne and Wear
Peel Castle, Isle of Man
Byland Abbey, North Yorkshire
Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire
Wingfield Castle, Suffolk
Egremont Castle, Cumbria
Lancaster Castle, Lancashire
Lanercost Priory, Cumbria
The Abbey of St Mary, York
Donnington Castle, Berkshire
Furness Abbey, Cumbria
Beverstone Castle, Gloucestershire
Antiquities of Great Britain, : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing, by Thomas Hearne and William Byrne, published in 1807, has been digitized by Boston Public Library and can be downloaded at Archive.org.
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the artist Thomas Hearne (1744 – 1817) and engraver William Byrne (1743–1805), began work recording and illustrating a series of historic monuments for The Antiquities of Great Britain. They produced two volumes of these works, the first in 1778 and the second in 1807, both of which were very popular and helped to bring new interest into medieval architecture.
Here are fifteen beautiful images of castles, abbeys, cathedrals and other medieval sites around England from the second volume of The Antiquities of Great Britain:
Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire
Warkworth Castle, Northumberland
Micklegate, City of York
Tynemouth Priory, Tyne and Wear
Peel Castle, Isle of Man
Byland Abbey, North Yorkshire
Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire
Wingfield Castle, Suffolk
Egremont Castle, Cumbria
Lancaster Castle, Lancashire
Lanercost Priory, Cumbria
The Abbey of St Mary, York
Donnington Castle, Berkshire
Furness Abbey, Cumbria
Beverstone Castle, Gloucestershire
Antiquities of Great Britain, : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing, by Thomas Hearne and William Byrne, published in 1807, has been digitized by Boston Public Library and can be downloaded at Archive.org.
See also
The World in 1467
Images of Castles from Medieval Manuscripts
Images of the Medieval City
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