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Description: | View from a distance of the ruins of Godstow Abbey, a former Benedictine nunnery founded in 1133. It was dissolved along with many other religious houses in 1539. Afterwards part of the building was used as a residence by Dr Owen, Henry VIII's physician. The abbey was fortified during the Civil War and then burnt down in 1645. Very little remains, as seen in the picture, except a walled enclosure with some domestic buildings. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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