Bristol UK Postcards - Abbey Gateway (Norman Arch)

Abbey Gateway (Norman Arch)

This unused postcard has the printed text...

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Excel Series Post Card
This is a Real Photograph

The postcard has a hand-written note that says...

In the opinion of most Bristolians the view of this place is about to be spoiled as the authorities are about to build a new municipal building right opposite the Catherdral. The municipal building will be plain and modern.

Whoever wrote this is talking about the Council House. Building started in 1938, interupted because of WWII, building was resumed in 1952 and it was only finished in 1956.

Abbey Gateway (Norman Arch)

This unused postcard has the printed text...

Series 130. No. 4
Published by Stewart & Woolf, London, E.C.
Printed in Saxony

The postcard has a handwritten date of September 11th, 1903.

Abbey Gateway (Norman Arch)

This unused postcard has the printed text...

Victor H. Turl
Tram Centre, Bristol

Abbey Gateway (Norman Arch) stereoview

Abbey Gateway (Norman Arch) stereoview detail

This stereograph has the printed text...

Europe and American views
182a
Bristol Cathedral, England

Abbey Gateway (Norman Arch)

This postcard, posted in Bristol on January 14th, 1906, has the printed text...

B. R. Ltd.

Robert FitzHardinge founded the Abbey of the Black Canons of St. Augustine in 1140 in the fields to the west of the town, and it was ready for its dedication in 1146. Near to the west entrance of the Cathedral is the decorated Abbey Gateway, sometimes called the Norman Arch. It was orginally built in 1142, but restored, along with much of the Cathedral sometime between 1480 and 1520. Two of the niches contain effigies of two of the early abbots, John de Newland (Nailheart) (1481 - 1515) and Robert Elliot (1515 - 1526). The Abbey Gateway adjoins the Bristol Central Library.

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