Newstead Abbey, Near Mansfield, Notts - Ancestral Home of Lord Byron - c1865

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An Original Woodcut Engraving of "Newstead Abbey" (Near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire) Produced by the Rev. Francis Orpen Morris Circa 1865 The plates were drawn by Alexander Francis Lydon, and printed using Baxters process by a Baxter licensee, Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893). A technically advanced process at the time, being colour printed in eight or more overlays from separate wooden blocks from original draughts (drawn on the wood) by Frank Lydon. This item is being offered, suitably mounted, ready for framing. FORMAT Overall Size:- 8 1/4" x 11 3/4" approxImage Size:- 6" x 9 1/2" approxThis is a genuine antique, being over 130 years old - NOT a modern reproduction.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - About the subject.... Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire, England, was formerly an Augustinian priory, converted to a domestic home following the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It is now best known as the ancestral home of Lord Byron. Monastic foundation The priory of St. Mary of Newstead, a house of Augustinian Canons, was founded by King Henry II of England about the year 1163, as one of many penances he paid following the murder of Thomas Becket. Contrary to its current name, Newstead was never an abbey: it was a priory. In the late 13th century, the priory was rebuilt and extend. It was extended again in the 15th-century, when the Dorter, Great Hall and Prior's Lodgings were added. The priory was designed to be home to at least 13 monks, however there appears to have been only 12 (including the Prior) at the time of the dissolution. The Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1534 gave the clear annual value of this priory as £167 16s. 11½d. The considerable deductions included 20s. given to the poor on Maundy Thursday in commemoration of Henry II, the founder, and a portion of food and drink similar to that of a canon given to some poor person every day, valued at 60s. a year. Despite the clear annual value of Newstead being below the £200 assigned as the limit for the suppression of the lesser monasteries, this priory obtained the doubtful privilege of exemption, on payment to the Crown of the heavy fine of £233 6s. 8d in 1537. The surrender of the house was accomplished on 21 July 1539. The signatures attached were those of John Blake, prior, Richard Kychun, sub-prior, John Bredon, cellarer, and nine other canons, Robert Sisson, John Derfelde, William Dotton, William Bathley, Christopher Motheram, Geoffrey Acryth, Richard Hardwyke, Henry Tingker, and Leonard Alynson. The prior obtained a pension of £26 13s. 4d., the sub-prior £6, and the rest of the ten canons who signed the surrender sums varying from £5 6s. 8d. to £3 6s. 8d. The lake was dredged in the late eighteenth century and the lectern, thrown into the Abbey fishpond by the monks to save it during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, was discovered. In 1805 it was given to Southwell Minster by Archdeacon Kaye where it still resides. NB: This item comes with a brief history of the property and its ownership. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SOME IMPORTANT NOTICES.... 1. Overseas postage rates are available on request. 2. Postage Discount is available on multiple purchases, so why not…. 3. If you still cannot find what you are looking for…..4. I shall be scheduling many more historic images on eBay in the future that may interest you. Thank you for your interest read more

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