On May 9, 1131, Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow, erected Tintern Abbey. Upon the Welsh side of the River Wye, that at this point separates Monmouthshire, Wales, from Gloucestershire, England, it is located close to the Monmouthshire village of Tintern. Following the Monasteries being dissolved in the sixteenth century, the abbey went into ruins. Since the eighteenth century, poems and paintings have honoured its remains. Cadw took over control of the management of the site in 1984. Approximately 70,000 individuals per year go to Tintern Abbey. The legend of Tewdrig, King of Glywysing, who withdrew as a hermit above the river at Tintern is documented by the Monmouthshire author Fred Hando. He later reappeared to command the army of his son in the battle of Pont-y-Saeson, where they defeated the Saxons. It was only the second Cistercian establishment in Britain and the first in Wales after the Waverley Abbey. With the construction of the inaugural wireworks by the Company of Mineral and Battery Works in 1568 and the later extension of factories and furnaces along the Angidy valley, the nearby area underwent industrialization after the collapse of the Abbey. As a result, there was some pollution at the Abbey site and local labourers resided inside the ruinous structures. Tintern Abbey was acquired by the Crown from the Duke of Beaufort in 1901 for £15,000, and the location was designated as a significant national historic site. The eighteenth century development of tourism had resulted in some repairs being made to the remains, but it was not until recently that archaeological inquiry started and the Abbey underwent professional maintenance and repairs. The Office of Works was given control of the ruins in 1914 and they made significant repairmen of the structures and a section of rebuilding! [Information and Image Credit :: Tintern_Abbey, Wikipedia] [Image: Tintern Abbey] [Image Availed Under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported ; Image-Author Wikipedia : Saffron Blaze (Please Relate to Individual Source Image URL for More Usage Properties) ] [License-Link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en ] [Source Image-URL : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tintern_Abbey_and_Courtyard.jpg ] #Architecture
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