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Shap Abbey
The early 13th century Shap Abbey, Shap in Cumbria.
Shap Abbey was dedicated to St Mary Magdalene of the French order of Premonstratensian or ''White'' Canons (due to the colour of their habits) and relocated to Shap around 1201. Acquiring land from local farmers in exchange for a place in heaven, the monks went on to become wealthy landowners! It was the last Abbey to be built in England, and the last to be dissolved by Henry VIII in 1540. The prominent west tower was not added until the 16th century.
Author: Joan Martin
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Photograph size: 34.6 Mpixels (98.9 MB uncompressed) - 7200x4802 pixels (24x16 in / 61x40.7 cm at 300 ppi)
Photograph keywords: abbey, medieval, monk, Premonstratensian, River Lowther, ruin, Shap, Shap Abbey, St Mary Magdalene, tower
Published in: Shap and Keld
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