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St Marys abbey and museum


St Marys abbey and museum
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Copyright: bryan johnstone (luckybry) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 659 W: 32 N: 866] (6505)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-03-10
Categories: Architecture
Camera: Nikon D40X, AF-S DX Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II, 52 mm Hoya Circular Polarizer
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2009-03-14 8:09
Viewed: 221
Points: 17
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
this is the Ruin of St marys abbey in York the other building is the yorkshire museum the weather was excellent for a walk round the gardens and i the chance to get the ruin and the more modern muesum building together done very little pp work before uploading
The Abbey of St Mary in York, England, is a ruined Benedictine abbey that lies in what are now the Yorkshire Museum Gardens, to the west of York Minster. The original abbey on the site was founded in 1055 and dedicated to Saint Olave. It was refounded by William II in 1088 who laid the foundation stone of the Norman church, although this church no longer remains. Following a dispute and riot in 1132, a party of reform-minded monks left to establish the Cistercian monastery of Fountains Abbey. The surviving ruins date back to the rebuilding programme begun in 1271 and finished by 1294.
The abbots of St Mary's were said to be very worldly and the abbey featured heavily in the early medieval ballads of Robin Hood (with the abbot usually as Robin Hood's nemesis).
St Mary's was once the largest and richest Benedictine establishment in the north of England and the abbey was one of the largest landholders in Yorkshire. However, in 1539, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII, it was closed and subsequently substantially destroyed. All that remains today are the north and west walls, plus a few other remnants: the Pilgrims' Hospitium, the West Gate and the 14th-century timber-framed Abbot's House (now called the King's Manor). The walls include interval towers along the north and west stretches, St Mary's Tower at the northwest corner and a polygonal water tower by the river. Excavated finds and architectural features, particularly relating to the warming house and late twelfth century chapter house, are displayed in the nearby Yorkshire Museum ty for looking
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  • lele Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 814 W: 51 N: 1717] (11169)
  • [2009-03-14 8:35]

ciao bryan
bellissimo pov
soggetto interessante
bella composizione
complimenti
lele

Hi Bryan,

Great pov
nice colours
sharp details
well done.

Regards
Jon

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  • BT123 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 93 W: 1 N: 139] (955)
  • [2009-03-14 10:30]
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Good composition of the foreground interest of the stones creating leading lines and the background sky. Well done regards. Balwant

Hi Bryan

Nice composition, I would have cropped the bottom very slightly to remove the small part of stone.
The muesum looks a little bright.
All the times I have been to York I have never seen this ruin.
TFS

Regards Derek

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  • Dot Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1390 W: 31 N: 3028] (12222)
  • [2009-03-14 10:47]
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Hi Bryan
'at raw ay arches gi'es us a guid idea ay hoo bonnie thes architecture was. yoo did a stoatin job ay composin' wi' th' law shot, gettin' lots ay details.
Dot

Hi Bryan
Wonderful place and capture
Great details and note
Have a nice Sunday
Burak

Hi,
Can see that you're trying to include as much as possible here from the tower left to the building right. Maybe took on just a wee bit too much which has left the foreground a bit empty. If you had got a bit closer and missed that wee bit of stone at the bottom or even just cropped it I think the empty space would be less dominant. Good shadows. Good notes. Thanks.
Dougie.

I agree with Dougie that you have possibly tried to include too much therefore I have prepared a workshop and cropped the museum which IMHO is the least interesting building of the three. The abbey and the church tower being the other two. The stones add interest to the fg and the daffodils are always a treat in Yorkshire especially along the country roads. TFS
warm regards
David

if only the tree in full.. anyway this is still a lovely shot, Bryan.. the view is lovely.. well taken, my friend.. i like it.. tfs..

regards, terry

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