Abbeys

NOTES: Bebenhausen is a village 3 km from Tubingen. It houses the monastery of Bebenhausen, which dates from the 11th century, although most of the buildings were constructed after 1560. This hall may or may not be part of it.

NOTES: A Benedictine abbey was established on this site in the 10th century and it has been the coronation church of English monarchs since 1066. Construction on the present church began in 1245. The Gothic nave was begun in 1376 under Abbot Nicholas Litlyngton (d. 1386), and completed by the master mason, Henry Yevele, in the 1390s. The 13th century stalls of the choir were removed in the late 18th century when Henry Keene, the then surveyor, designed a smaller choir. It was redesigned in Victorian Gothic style by Edward Blore in the 1850s when the partitions which until then had blocked off the transepts were removed.

SOURCE: British Architect, vol. 30, 1888 Oct. 26, between p. 294-303

NOTES: This is the preliminary pencil study of a collection of buildings of the world drawn to scale which was later the basis for a chromolithographic print entitled 'The Most Famous Buildings in the World' published by the Boy's Own Paper (see RIBA31368).

NOTES: Wilson exhibited a drawing of Malmesbury Abbey at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1895 (no. 1439) and this is possibly that drawing.