UrbeX
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I really hope I'm using this right for photos...
I visited Whitby Abbey a few days ago on a family holiday, and I've seen English Heritage sites on this website before, so I assumed I would be allowed to post the photos here. If I've done it wrong, please tell me!
The upper part of the abbey, where the extra floors and corridors were. The remains of corridors were actually visible where the brickwork had crumbled away in some areas.
The lower part of the abbey.
Something buried in a grassy verge near what could have been the bathrooms or some other outside area. It looks like a stone basin of some sort.
Now THIS I found interesting - obviously a tower had crumbled away here, leaving the lower half of a hidden staircase. I wonder if a corridor had crossed an upper floor to this stairway, since the stairs seem to stop halfway off the ground.
Tried to get a more artistic angle... ^^;
Assuming these were all tombstones, this was the only one which boasted a headstone as well as a marker. Could it belong to a more venerable figure of the abbey, or had the others simply lost the headstones they had?
The heads of some of the statues once carved into the stone are still visible, though if they were vandalised in the Dissolution and not by natural decay, it puzzles me as to why the heads would remain - wouldn't those be the first things to be mutilated if it was on purpose?
I'm really not sure what this is. It looks like it could be a coffin, but the"shoulders" are visibly uneven and why it should be buried so close to the surface and without a marker is beyond me, so chances are it's something else. (I think it's a little obvious that I walked around with no kind of tour here...)
Beautiful carvings in the upper levels.
Some sort of crest in the roof of the lower level.
I apologise for the quality of this photo - it was taken with an iPhone on zoom, and it was very difficult to hold it still to get a decent shot of such a high, small area. ^^;
A look up into one of the turrets where the stairs had been smashed in. The edges of the steps are visible along the walls.
Another tower had the stairs only half demolished, starting again a few metres up the walls - but the smell in the stairwells was so terrible that I couldn't hold my breath for long enough to take a photo!
More photos in my Flikr set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gohoshi/sets/72157624759988718/
I visited Whitby Abbey a few days ago on a family holiday, and I've seen English Heritage sites on this website before, so I assumed I would be allowed to post the photos here. If I've done it wrong, please tell me!
The upper part of the abbey, where the extra floors and corridors were. The remains of corridors were actually visible where the brickwork had crumbled away in some areas.
The lower part of the abbey.
Something buried in a grassy verge near what could have been the bathrooms or some other outside area. It looks like a stone basin of some sort.
Now THIS I found interesting - obviously a tower had crumbled away here, leaving the lower half of a hidden staircase. I wonder if a corridor had crossed an upper floor to this stairway, since the stairs seem to stop halfway off the ground.
Tried to get a more artistic angle... ^^;
Assuming these were all tombstones, this was the only one which boasted a headstone as well as a marker. Could it belong to a more venerable figure of the abbey, or had the others simply lost the headstones they had?
The heads of some of the statues once carved into the stone are still visible, though if they were vandalised in the Dissolution and not by natural decay, it puzzles me as to why the heads would remain - wouldn't those be the first things to be mutilated if it was on purpose?
I'm really not sure what this is. It looks like it could be a coffin, but the"shoulders" are visibly uneven and why it should be buried so close to the surface and without a marker is beyond me, so chances are it's something else. (I think it's a little obvious that I walked around with no kind of tour here...)
Beautiful carvings in the upper levels.
Some sort of crest in the roof of the lower level.
I apologise for the quality of this photo - it was taken with an iPhone on zoom, and it was very difficult to hold it still to get a decent shot of such a high, small area. ^^;
A look up into one of the turrets where the stairs had been smashed in. The edges of the steps are visible along the walls.
Another tower had the stairs only half demolished, starting again a few metres up the walls - but the smell in the stairwells was so terrible that I couldn't hold my breath for long enough to take a photo!
More photos in my Flikr set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gohoshi/sets/72157624759988718/
