Title

Ruins of the Priory of Mount Grace, East Harlsey, York, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Ruins of the Priory of Mount Grace, East Harlsey, York, 1850. View of the '...beautiful and extensive ruins of a Carthusian Priory [in Yorkshire], founded a.d. 1396, by Thomas de Holland, Duke of Surrey...and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and St. Nicholas...The secluded situation and romantic gloom of this monastery seem to have been particularly adapted to the austerities of the rigid order of the Carthusians...A Gothic archway forms the entrance into the chief quadrangle, the outer walls of which enclose about three acres of ground, and are still standing fantastically covered with ivy. The inner court is surrounded by double walls, where we may still detect...the cells...of the sterner devotees, or the delinquents of the order. The church, which is now in ruins, was in the form of a cross; the tower, yet perfect, rising from the centre, and supported by four arches'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM22A36_086

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

55,8Mb (2,9Mb) / 16,5in x 13,1in / 4960 x 3935 (300dpi)

Keywords

travel exterior outdoors building buildings England event religious architecture monastery religion British church Yorkshire ruins medieval ruin Christianity Gothic Catholic Catholicism Victorian century Roman Catholic Britain newspapers press concept ruined North Yorkshire carthusian B&W tourist attraction engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W mediaeval priory Dissolution Middle Ages Roman Catholicism 14th century Fourteenth Century nineteenth century tourism The Print Collector Dissolution of the Monasteries 1540 Illustrated London News Mount Grace Priory Reformation TGN ILN outside newspaper landscape Unknown Surrey Thomas Holland Duke of East Harlsey Thomas Holland Duke of Surrey 1st Duke of Surrey 19th-century