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the historic work
of the by the brothers, Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, Views of Ruins
of Castles & Abbeys in England, 1726-1739. Samuel and Nathaniel
Buck were the most important topographical artists of the 18th
century, creating a record of over 500 ancient monuments &
towns in England and Wales. Many of these monuments had been
devastated during the course of the Reformation, particularly
during the period when Oliver Cromwell ruled England as "Lord
Protector." The Bucks Views, as they have become known, provide an
invaluable record of these magnificent buildings, some of which
have seen further deterioration during the 275 years that have
since passed.
Samuel
& Nathaniel
Buck"Buck's Views" as they were called are 428 views of the ruins
of all noted abbeys, castles, together with four views of seats and
eighty-three large general views of the chief cities and towns of
England and Wales. Published between 1724-38 on Hand-Made Laid
Watermarked Paper. . . . . where possible other names have been
used and Wiki info
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8. The East View on Nun- eaton Nunnery in
the County of Warwick
ie Nuneaton
Antique engraving 'Buck's Views
from the boook began in
1726, by the brothers, Samuel & Nathaniel Buck began their task
of creating a visual record of ancient monuments in England and
Wales. "Buck's Views" as they were called are 428 views of the
ruins of all noted abbeys, castles, together with four views of
seats and eighty-three large general views of the chief cities and
towns of England and Wales. Printed and sold individually and
collected into volumes for book purchasers. Samuel Buck was born in
Richmond, Yorkshire, in 1696, Nathaniel being a younger brother.
~Published between 1724-38 on Hand-Made Laid Watermarked Paper, 11
1/4" x 18 1/2" £50 full page perfect post inclusive
Nuneaton's name came from a 12th century Benedictine nunnery (parts
of which still survive) from which much of the town grew around.
Prior to this it was a settlement known as 'Etone', which
translates literally as 'water-town'. Nuneaton was listed in the
Domesday Book as a small hamlet.A market was established in 1233
(and is still held today). The first recorded use of the modern
name was in 1247 when a document recorded it as 'Nonne Eton'. The
Nunnery fell into disrepair after 1539 (with Henry VIII's
dissolution of the monasteries).
Tinted version later edition numbered to the right margin £50
full page perfect post inclusive
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The West View of Wetheral Priory,
in the County of Cumberland, now Wetheral
Antique
engraving 'Buck's Views from
the boook began in 1726, by the brothers, Samuel & Nathaniel
Buck began their task of creating a visual record of ancient
monuments in England and Wales. "Buck's Views" as they were called
are 428 views of the ruins of all noted abbeys, castles, together
with four views of seats and eighty-three large general views of
the chief cities and towns of England and Wales. Printed and sold
individually and collected into volumes for book purchasers. Samuel
Buck was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, in 1696, Nathaniel being a
younger brother. ~Published between 1724-38 on Hand-Made Paper, 11 1/4"
x 18 1/2"£50 whole
page
full
margins later edition numbered to the right
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The North
West Prospect of Barlings Abbey
nr Lincoln
Antique
engraving 'Buck's Views from
the boook began in 1726, by the brothers, Samuel & Nathaniel
Buck began their task of creating a visual record of ancient
monuments in England and Wales. "Buck's Views" as they were called
are 428 views of the ruins of all noted abbeys, castles, together
with four views of seats and eighty-three large general views of
the chief cities and towns of England and Wales. Printed and sold
individually and collected into volumes for book purchasers. Samuel
Buck was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, in 1696, Nathaniel being a
younger brother. ~Published between 1724-38 on Hand-Made Laid
Watermarked Paper, 11 1/4" x 18 1/2"£50 whole
page
full
margins
Barlings Abbey, Lincolnshire, was a Premonstratensian monastery in
England, founded in 1154.Its founder was Ralph de Haye, son of the
constable of Lincoln Castle, and lord of Burwell and Carlton. It
was first established at Barlings Grange but was soon moved to its
present site.
By the mid-14th century the canons are known to have been in
considerable financial trouble and even by 1412 when there were
twenty-seven in residence, they were maintained with difficulty due
to continued poverty and debt. By 1497 the situation had improved
with the abbot praised for his administration and the monastery
remarked to be in a good state. In 1537, during the Dissolution of
the Monasteries, the abbey became involved in the uprisings against
this act and the abbot, Matthew Mackarel, and six of the canons
were subsequently executed. The abbey was closed and the remainder
of the canons expelled with little compensation due to the
activities of their condemned brethren, with the property then
passing to the Duke of Suffolk.
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The
East View of The
Inside of Eynsham Abby near Oxford
Antique
engraving 'Buck's
Views from the boook began in 1726, by the brothers, Samuel &
Nathaniel Buck began their task of creating a visual record of
ancient monuments in England and Wales. "Buck's Views" as they were
called are 428 views of the ruins of all noted abbeys, castles,
together with four views of seats and eighty-three large general
views of the chief cities and towns of England and Wales. Printed
and sold individually and collected into volumes for book
purchasers. Samuel Buck was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, in 1696,
Nathaniel being a younger brother. ~Published between 1724-38 on
Hand-Made Laid Watermarked Paper, "£50 whole page
full
margins
Eynsham Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Eynsham, Oxfordshire
in England. King Aethelred allowed Aethelmar to found the abbey in
1005 . After the Norman Conquest the abbey was reopened in 1086.
The abbey flourished until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in
1538. Anthony Kitchin was the last abbot. Some of the buildings
were wrecked to hinder the return of the monks. The Earl of Derby
acquired the abbey buildings, the stones of which were subsequently
used to build houses in the
village
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The South East View of Ewelm
Palace in the County of
Oxford
Antique engraving 'Buck's Views
from the boook began in
1726, by the brothers, Samuel & Nathaniel Buck began their task
of creating a visual record of ancient monuments in England and
Wales. "Buck's Views" as they were called are 428 views of the
ruins of all noted abbeys, castles, together with four views of
seats and eighty-three large general views of the chief cities and
towns of England and Wales. Printed and sold individually and
collected into volumes for book purchasers. Samuel Buck was born in
Richmond, Yorkshire, in 1696, Nathaniel being a younger brother.
~Published between 1724-38 on Hand-Made Laid Watermarked Paper, 11
1/4" x 18 1/2" "£50 whole page
full
margins
Ewelme is a village and civil parish in the South Oxfordshire
district of the county of Oxfordshire in England.The village lies
in a little picturesque valley, four miles east of the town of
Wallingford. Its name derives from the remarkably fine spring just
to the north which forms the 'King's Pool', which empties into a
rapid stream known as the Ewelme Brook. This flows past Fifield
Manor and then through nearby Benson before emptying itself into
the Thames: Ae-whylme is Anglo-Saxon for 'waters
whelming'.
Ewelme is chiefly known for its beautiful 15th century cloistered
almshouses, officially called 'The Two Chaplains and Thirteen Poor
Men of Ewelme in the County of Oxford'. The thirteen almsmen have
now been reduced to eight, but the building is still run as a
charity by the Ewelme
Trust
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The North View of Begeham Abby in the
County of
Sussex
Antique engraving 'Buck's Views
from the boook began in
1726, by the brothers, Samuel & Nathaniel Buck began their task
of creating a visual record of ancient monuments in England and
Wales. "Buck's Views" as they were called are 428 views of the
ruins of all noted abbeys, castles, together with four views of
seats and eighty-three large general views of the chief cities and
towns of England and Wales. Printed and sold individually and
collected into volumes for book purchasers. Samuel Buck was born in
Richmond, Yorkshire, in 1696, Nathaniel being a younger brother.
~Published between 1724-38 on Hand-Made Laid Watermarked Paper, 11
1/4" x 18 1/2" £50 whole
page
full margins
mounted
Begeham, usually called Bayham abbey, situated about three quarters
of a mile distant south-westward from Hodleigh, and close on the
opposite side of the stream which separates the two counties. It
was founded at a place here called Beaulieu, about the year 1200,
by Robert, nephew of Michael de Turnham, for monks of the
Præmonstratensian order; some of whom he removed from
Brockley, in
Deptford, hither for that purpose. . . . . . ..
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The
North View of
Ulvescroft Priory In the County of
Leicester
Antique
engraving 'Buck's
Views from the boook began in 1726, by the brothers, Samuel &
Nathaniel Buck began their task of creating a visual record of
ancient monuments in England and Wales. "Buck's Views" as they were
called are 428 views of the ruins of all noted abbeys, castles,
together with four views of seats and eighty-three large general
views of the chief cities and towns of England and Wales. Printed
and sold individually and collected into volumes for book
purchasers. Samuel Buck was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, in 1696,
Nathaniel being a younger brother. ~Published between 1724-38 on
Hand-Made Laid Watermarked Paper, perefect in a simple mount to
preserve size 11/4" x 18 1/2"£50 whole page
full
margins mounted
THE PRIORY OF ULVERSCROFTThe priory of St. Mary at
Ulverscroft was founded by Robert, Earl of Leicester,who gave the
site on which the house was built. A papal document of 1174,
in which the first mention of the monastery occurs, states that
Ranulph, Earl of Chester, gave 30 acres in Charnwood Forest to the
priory, and it must therefore have been founded before the death of
Earl Ranulph de Gernon in 1153. The house was described as a
hermitage about 1220, but as early as 1174 the Pope ordered the
Augustinian rule to be observed there. Before 1174 the priory
obtained the church of Stanford on Soar (Notts.). The
advowson of Stanford was a source of dispute in the 13th
century, and the priory had lost it by 1280. In 1323 William
de Ferrers had licence to alienate in mortmain to Ulverscroft 70
acres of waste land at Groby, and the advowson of the church of
Syston (Leics.). Licence was granted in 1361 for the
appropriation of Syston. The advowson of Bunny (Notts.) was granted
to the priory in 1345 by Thomas de Ferrers.
About 1220 the priory contained only three brothers, all
priests, but this number was later exceeded. There were eight
canons in the house in 1438, when a visitation by Bishop Alnwick
revealed an unsatisfactory state of affairs. There were many
complaints about the prior's bad management of the monastery's
concerns, and it was also said that he was lax in the maintenance
of religious discipline. The sub-prior was said to have once been
absent from the house for twenty years, and to have been readmitted
without the knowledge of the convent. The prior accused the canons
of wandering outside the priory, and of possessing private
property. Bishop Alnwick provided that the prior should retain
control of the priory until the next Michaelmas, when it would be
decided whether he should resign, or be assisted by a coadjutor. In
fact the prior resigned in
1439.
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The
South View of Lewis
Priory & Castle In the County of Sussex
Antique
engraving 'Buck's
Views from the boook began in 1726, by the brothers, Samuel &
Nathaniel Buck began their task of creating a visual record of
ancient monuments in England and Wales. "Buck's Views" as they were
called are 428 views of the ruins of all noted abbeys, castles,
together with four views of seats and eighty-three large general
views of the chief cities and towns of England and Wales. Printed
and sold individually and collected into volumes for book
purchasers. Samuel Buck was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, in 1696,
Nathaniel being a younger brother. ~Published between 1724-38 on
Hand-Made Laid Watermarked Paper, perefect in a simple mount to
preserve size 11/4" x 18 1/2" £50 whole page
full margins
mounted
Lewes Priory (St. Pancras Priory, Lewes) was a Cluniac priory
established in the valley of the river Ouse in the eleventh
century, between 1078 and 1082. It was founded by William de
Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, lord of the Rape of Lewes, and his
wife Gundrada, who had come to England from Normandy with William
the Conqueror. The first prior was Lanzo, who came with a few other
from Cluny.The priory became wealthy and, at the time of its
demolition under the dissolution of the monasteries in November
1537, it owned about 20,000 acres of land in the surrounding county
of Sussex alone. However, there were only 24 monks at this time,
reduced from approximately 100 during the period from
1100-1300.
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The South West View of
Battel Abby in the County of Sussex
Antique
engraving 'Buck's
Views from the boook began in 1726, by the brothers, Samuel &
Nathaniel Buck began their task of creating a visual record of
ancient monuments in England and Wales. "Buck's Views" as they were
called are 428 views of the ruins of all noted abbeys, castles,
together with four views of seats and eighty-three large general
views of the chief cities and towns of England and Wales. Printed
and sold individually and collected into volumes for book
purchasers. Samuel Buck was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, in 1696,
Nathaniel being a younger brother. ~Published between 1724-38 on
Hand-Made Laid Watermarked Paper, perefect in a simple mount to
preserve size 11/4" x 18 1/2" £50 whole page
full margins
unmounted shading to the page top left margin from sunning later
edition to rag paper
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The
South View of
Winchelsea Monastry in the County of
Sussex
Antique
engraving 'Buck's
Views from the boook began in 1726, by the brothers, Samuel &
Nathaniel Buck began their task of creating a visual record of
ancient monuments in England and Wales. "Buck's Views" as they were
called are 428 views of the ruins of all noted abbeys, castles,
together with four views of seats and eighty-three large general
views of the chief cities and towns of England and Wales. Printed
and sold individually and collected into volumes for book
purchasers. Samuel Buck was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, in 1696,
Nathaniel being a younger brother. ~Published between 1724-38 on
Hand-Made Laid Watermarked Paper, perefect in a simple mount to
preserve size 11/4" x 18 1/2" £50 whole page
full margins
mounted x 2
There were several religious houses in New Winchelsea, most
notably, the monastery of the Grey Friars (Franciscans). The Grey
Friars moved from Old Winchelsea, where they had been since 1252.
Their monastery appears to have been badly damaged by the storms
that hit Old Winchelsea and, in 1284, they were granted a 4-acre
site by John Bone of Wickham to allow them to relocate. The new
monastery therefore predated the Crown’s acquisition of land
for
New Winchelsea and the irregular shape of the plot disrupted the
symmetry of news town's the quarters. The monastery was dissolved
in 1538 and most of the buildings were demolished to provide stone
for Camber Castle. The site was sold off by the Crown in 1545. The
surviving buildings were converted into a private residence but
this was demolished in 1819 to make way for the current house. All
that remains of the monastery, apart from its buried foundations,
is part of the monastery church. This is a spectacular ruin.
Pevsner thought it one of the most impressive Franciscan remains in
England. The walls of the choir stand to almost their original
height and the arch that connected with the nave remains in place.
There is a small tower to one side of the arch, containing stairs
thought to lead to the now missing dormitory. This was used as a
watchtower by customs officers in the early 19th century.
The monastery of the Black Friars (Dominicans) was located in what
is now Pipewell Field on the opposite side of the A259 to the Ferry
or Pipewell Gate. At the foundation of New Winchelsea, the barons
asked that the only religious house in the town should be the Grey
Friars. The Black Friars (a preaching order later associated with
the Inquisition) were not popular and there are records of fights
between monks and townsfolk. The Black Friars did not get into the
town until Edward II granted them a site in 1318, but they had to
be content with Kings Green at the southern end by the New Gate.
This proved unsatisfactory as few people came to visit the
monastery or give alms. In 1339, the Black Friars moved to a new
site on reclaimed marshland on the north side of the settlement of
Iham, outside the town walls. In 1342, the monks complained to the
Pope that the site was at risk of flooding. He ordered the Bishop
of Chichester to move them into the town. This was only achieved in
1357, when Edward III needed the support of the Pope for his
invasion of France, and a site by the Ferry Gate was found.
However, by the time of the Dissolution in 1538, the monastery was
in ruins. As with the Grey Friars monastery, its stone was removed
to help build Camber Castle. from
http://www.winchelsea.net/visiting/winchelsea_history_pt11.htm
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The
North West View of Donstable
priory in the County of Bedford
Antique
engraving 'Buck's
Views from the boook began in 1726, by the brothers, Samuel &
Nathaniel Buck began their task of creating a visual record of
ancient monuments in England and Wales. "Buck's Views" as they were
called are 428 views of the ruins of all noted abbeys, castles,
together with four views of seats and eighty-three large general
views of the chief cities and towns of England and Wales. Printed
and sold individually and collected into volumes for book
purchasers. Samuel Buck was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, in 1696,
Nathaniel being a younger brother. ~Published between 1724-38 on
Hand-Made Laid Watermarked Paper, perefect in a simple mount to
preserve size 11/4" x 18 1/2" £50 whole page
full margins
mounted
The Priory Church of St Peter with its monastery (Dunstable Priory)
was founded in 1132 by Henry I for Augustinian Canons in Dunstable,
Bedfordshire, England. St Peter’s today is a large and
impressive
building, but this is only the nave of what remains of an
originally much larger Augustinian priory church. The monastic
buildings consisted of a dormitory for the monks, an infirmary,
stables, workshops, bakehouse, brewhouse and buttery. There was
also a hostel for pilgrims and travellers, the remains of which is
known today as Priory House. Opposite the Priory was one of the
royal palaces belonging to Henry I, known as
Kingsbury.
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the West View
of Daventry Priory in the County
of Northampton
Antique
engraving 'Buck's Views from the
boook began in 1726, by the brothers, Samuel & Nathaniel Buck
began their task of creating a visual record of ancient monuments
in England and Wales. "Buck's Views" as they were called are 428
views of the ruins of all noted abbeys, castles, together with four
views of seats and eighty-three large general views of the chief
cities and towns of England and Wales. Printed and sold
individually and collected into volumes for book purchasers. Samuel
Buck was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, in 1696, Nathaniel being a
younger brother. ~Published between 1724-38 on Hand-Made Laid
Watermarked Paper, 11 1/4" x 18 1/2" £50 whole page
full margins
mounted
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