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Description: | North west view of the impressive ruins of St Botolph's Priory in Colchester in Essex. As can be seen from its ruins in the picture, there was once a considerable early Norman Church here. St Botolph's Priory was founded in the late 11th century as the first British house of the Augustinian Canons. The church was built of rubble and also Roman bricks, brought from nearby Roman ruins in Colchester. This picture shows the surviving west front and part of the nave. On the west front there are Romanesque doorways and decorative arching on the walls, which gives a glimpse of what it may once have been like. The transepts and east end were no longer standing. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Bulman, J. | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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