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Ruin of abbey at Rufford Park

Rufford Abbey & Country Park, Nottinghamshire. Stable Block, late c17. Altered and reroofed late c19. Grade ll listed. Arms of Sir John Savile, 1st Baron Savile (1818-1896), 1860s. By John Birch. The Cistercian Abbey was founded in 1147 by Gilbert de Gant. Rufford Abbey and its land were given to George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury by King Henry Vlll in 1537 for services rendered. The early Victorian wing of the house was added by the architect Anthony Salvin (1799-1881) between 1838 and 1840. The house contents were sold in 1938 and the house partially demolished in 1956. The Country Park was established in 1969.

Remains of the Jacobean wing of Rufford Abbey in Rufford Country Park.

At twilight.

Glass stereo slides of England. [Great uncle in car]. Taken by my g-grandfather during trips to England and Europe, with the family, 1907 -1922, using the Richard Verascope stereo camera. The slides, contain two small positive transparency images, of 38 x38mm (1 ½”) , giving a reasonable medium-resolution image. The images are normally viewed with the self-advancing tray viewer – the Richard Taxiphote cabinet stereo viewer. The make of car is unknown.

Looking at the ruined abbey, which is at the north end of the house. The abbey was founded by Gilbert de Gant around 1147 and populated with Cistercian monks from Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire. The dissolution of the monastery in 1536... more

A missing tombstone commemorating a medieval monk laid to rest in Nottinghamshire in the 14th Century is rediscovered more than 100 miles away.

Rufford Abbey was founded by Gilbert de Gant in 1146. Picture: Mercian Archaeological Services CIC , Groin-vaulted Rufford Abbey Underc...

Picture: The Undercroft at Rufford Abbey, Sherwood  Forest, Nottinghamshire. Rufford Abbey was a monastery of Cistercian monks in the he...

The ruins of the 12 th Century Abbey and later country house, sits in 150 acres of historic parkland in North Nottinghamshire. Th...

Rufford Abbey

Me at Rufford Abbey, 2018

A chimera on a wall of Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire

Rufford Abbey, North Notts. Remains of a Cistercian monastery and later a country house. Now at the centre of a country park. Founded 1416 by the Earl of Lincoln, the site was subsequently acquired by the Earls of Shrewsbury and turned into a country house.

The remains of a medieval church, which was once part of Rufford Abbey in Northamptonshire, England, have been uncovered after a two-week dig.