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Egglestone Abbey, England
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Egglestone Abbey from the air. | ![]() |
Egglestone from across the river Tees. | |
Abbey Church, Egglestone | ![]() |
Another view of the Abbey Church | ![]() |
Dayroom range from the side chapel. | ![]() |
Remains of high altar portion of church. | ![]() |
Only spiral staircase (upper portion of opening, at right) at Egglestone. | ![]() |
Opening in wall by spiral staircase. | ![]() |
Window at rear of nave. | ![]() |
Exit door at rear of nave. | ![]() |
Church exit to cloister area. | ![]() |
View up to the altar area from the rear of the nave. You can see the stone tomb at the crossing point of the trancept. | ![]() |
Windows in the north wall of the nave. | ![]() |
Stone tomb of Sir Ralph Bowes of Streatlam. The carvings were extremely detailed and hardly weathered. | ![]() |
View down the nave from the high altar area. | ![]() |
Large recess in the south wall by the high altar. | ![]() |
Sacramentary recesses in the vicinity of the high altar. | ![]() |
Closeup of the Sacramentary by the high altar. | |
Close up of altar area / apse of church. | ![]() |
Slope down to the road -- you can clearly see here that the Abbey was built on a raised area of ground. | ![]() |
A close-up of the "stone fill" method of construction! | ![]() |
East wall of dayroom range -- you can see the two levels easily because so many of the window openings remain. | ![]() |
View down the nave to the rear of the church, taken from the side chapel. | ![]() |
Outside view of lower window in dayroom range. | ![]() |
Outside view of upper windows in dayroom range. | ![]() |
Various views of the store room under the Novice quarters. | ![]() |
Another view of the storeroom. | ![]() |
Another view of the storeroom. | ![]() |
Drainage channel under the Novice quarters. | ![]() |
Another view of the drainage channel under the Novice quarters. | ![]() |
View down to the road, taken from the rear of the Novice quarters. | ![]() |
Entrance to the "warming room". | ![]() |
Stairs up to the dormitory, taken from Novice's room. | ![]() |
Fireplace in the Novice's room. | ![]() |
View down to the river Tees. | ![]() |
View in the vicinity of the Novices quarters / dayroom area. | ![]() |
Recess in Novice's quarters above and to the right of the fireplace. | ![]() |
View from the Novice's quarters across the cloister to the kitchen and western range. | ![]() |
Refectory from Novice's quarters. | ![]() |
Cloister and rear of the church from Novice's quarters. | ![]() |
End of dayroom, looking towards Novice's quarters. | ![]() |
Chimny about halfway down the east side of the dayroom! | ![]() |
Remains of the Refectory. Apparently there are undercrofts (cellars) under the Refectory, but there was no evidence of them. | ![]() |
View down the length of the kitchen and western range. | ![]() |
The back of the nave and south trancept. | ![]() |
The dayroom and dormitory range across the cloister, as seen from the western range. | ![]() |
Another view of the dayroom and dormitory range across the cloister, as seen from the western range. | ![]() |
Windows of the south trancept. | ![]() |
Standing wall between rear of the church and the western range. | ![]() |
Tomb of an abbot close to that of Sir Ralph. It is clearly an abbot's tomb because of the presence of the Crosier carving at left. | ![]() |
Windows on the south wall of the nave. | ![]() |
Windows on the south wall of the nave. | ![]() |
View of the Abbey as seen on the approach road. | ![]() |
Another view of the Abbey from the approach road. | ![]() |
This is an older photograph of Egglestone found in the Archives of St. Norbert Abbey, De Pere, Wisconsin, U.S.A. |