Kingswood Abbey Gatehouse
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Kingswood Abbey Gatehouse
Image: © Philip Halling Taken: 19 Apr 2017
This early sixteenth century gatehouse is all that remains of a once large monastery. Kingswood Abbey was Cistercian and founded with monks from Tintern Abbey in the Wye valley in Monmouthshire, by William de Berkeley in 1139, it was dissolved in 1538. Today it is in the care of English Heritage. The gatehouse is Grade I listed. Historic England description https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1238022
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Image Location
Latitude
51.626422
Longitude
-2.366741