#RuinedPrioryFriday & its Dale Abbey, just to the east of Derby While mostly just a single gothic arch standing now & some ruins of the chancel being grazed by sheep, you can also see a chunk of masonry thats been incorporated into a local house
Its #RuinedPrioryFriday & something a little different this week: a contender for largest barn ever built in England! The St Leonards Barn, linked with Beaulieu Abbey a short way up the road, built between c13 & c14 before a more modest barn was built in its footprint in c16
#RuinedPrioryFriday & its the Monastery of 40 saints above the city of Sarandë, Albania 🇦🇱 likely founded during the reign of Justinian
Always nice to have a site outside the British Isles for #RuinedPrioryFriday This is the C13 Monastery of St Nicholas in Southern Albania 🇦🇱 While the monastery church still stands you can see the ruins of other structures and the boundary wall
#RuinedPrioryFriday - with moody scenes from Bayham Abbey, on the border between Sussex & Kent founded in 1208
#RuinedPrioryFriday and one id not come across til now - Cleeve Abbey in Somerset A Cistercian Abbey founded between 1186 and 1191 when William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln, gave all his lands at Cleeve for the foundation of a new abbey.
Still recovering from a brilliant all-nighter, but since its #RuinedPrioryFriday here's Lewes priory
#RuinedPrioryFriday with the masterwork that is Fountains Abbey, because sometimes - we all just need some Fountains Abbey
