Abbeys.
The Greater Abbeys of England: Open Library
"Abbeys of England,
ruined, dismantled, and time-worn, are
fitting memorials of a great past. From
any point of view, and whatever our
opinion about the utility or purpose of
monastic life in general and about
English monastic life in particular, we
are constrained to confess that the
monks of old, who built up these "Cliffs
of Walls" and ornamented them with all
the wealth of carving, panelling, and
moulding still to be traced amid the
moss-grown ruins, have left, scattered
over the whole face of their country,
monuments of their great work and stone
records of their existence in the land
from the earliest period of our national
history."
Britain's abbeys are either privately owned or are under the
ownership of English Heritage, the National Trust, Cadw, or Historic Scotland.
These latter organizations provide free entry to members.
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