Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Devon
A. McClatchie (fl.mid 19th century)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1900
Materials
Paper, wood and glass
Measurements
195 x 260 mm
Order this imageCollection
Benthall Hall, Shropshire
NT 509636
Summary
Print, engraving, Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Devon by A. McClatchie (fl.mid 19th century). Small engraving of Buckfast Abbey in Devonshire, a large four-storey building with turrets and castellated roof line. Viewed across parkland with peasants haymaking and gentlemen fishing in foreground. ruin visible in the background on left. Inscribed - Property of Mrs Benthall to Captain White RN..View of his residence is respectfull inscribed, No.702/4 S (Boots' label). 1900. Buckfast first became home to an abbey in 1018. The first Benedictine abbey was followed by a Cistercian abbey constructed on the site of the current abbey in 1134. The monastery was surrendered for dissolution in 1539, with the monastic buildings stripped and left as ruins, before being finally demolished. The former abbey site was used as a quarry, and later became home to a Gothic mansion house.In 1882 the site was purchased by a group of French Benedictine monks, who refounded a monastery on the site, dedicated to Saint Mary. New monastic buildings and a temporary church were constructed incorporating the existing Gothic house. Work on a new abbey church, which was constructed mostly on the footprint of the former Cistercian abbey, started in 1907. The church was consecrated in 1932 but not completed until 1938.
Provenance
Engraved by A. McClatchie circa 1900. Owned by Mary Clementina Benthall (1879-1960) and recorded in the 1957 list of pictures, furniture etc suggested for retention at Benthall Hall by the National Trust. Transferred to the ownership of the National Trust with the contents of Benthall Hall in the Deed Of Gift made by Mary Clementina Benthall and dated 8th August 1958. Recorded in the Inventory Of National Trust Property At Benthall Hall dated 1st October 1963.
Marks and inscriptions
No.702/4 S (Boots' label)
Makers and roles
A. McClatchie (fl.mid 19th century), engraver (printmaker)