A survey tracing the city’s greatest ornaments from antiquity to the present day originated as a series of lectures ...

One of the first builders of the abbey was abbot Baldwin, a French monk and physician ... nonetheless. The ruins themselves can now be found in what is Abbey Gardens – a sprawling green space ...

Furness Abbey was founded by a group of French monks in 1127 in the 'vale ... though the monks were still in residence. The romantic ruins of the abbey were celebrated by Wordsworth in his Prelude ...

The 12th Century ruins, monastic buildings and infrastructure are all in need of attention, the survey said. The abbey was established ... Belgian brick combining French and Moorish architectural ...

In the 18th century a designed landscape of exceptional beauty was created around the ruins of the Cistercian Fountains Abbey, in Yorkshire. The spectacular ruins of the 12th century abbey and water ...