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Tintern Abbey, ecclesiastical ruin in Monmouthshire, Wales, on the west bank of the River Wye.

The building was finally completed, except for minor additions, in the early 14th Now the Welsh Society of National Historic Monuments is watching over the ruins; restoration work is underway to preserve the ruins.

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It was only the second Cistercian foundation in Britain, and the first in Wales, and was founded on 9 May 1131 by Walter de Clare, lord of Chepstow. If only the walls could talk! Gothic masterpiece became a Romantic symbol of the sublime Tintern Abbey is a national icon – still standing in roofless splendour on the banks of the River Wye nearly 500 years since its tragic fall from grace. Founded for Cistercian monks in 1131, Tintern Abbey was almost entirely rebuilt and enlarged between 1220 and 1287. The Cistercian abbey of Tintern is one of the greatest monastic ruins of Wales. Jeffrey L. Thomas Although holy wells and certain other religious sites generally pre-date the grand medieval abbeys of Wales, like the surviving Castles of Wales, medieval abbeys still dominate the Welsh landscape today.The ruined abbeys of Wales have their own set of unique charms and special histories, tempting visitors to learn more about Britain's medieval monastic past. ‘Tintern Abbey’ by William Wordsworth, or to give it its fuller title, ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey’, or to give it its absolutely full title, ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour.July 13, 1798’, is one of Wordsworth’s finest and most celebrated poetic achievements. The abbey, rebuilt in the 13th century, became a haven for 400 monks and, despite the epidemic of “black death”, survived until 1536, when all the monasteries were dissolved by decree of Henry VIII, and Tintern began to decline. I do remember the Tintern abbey ruins below in the valley which you could see out of the windows. It was founded in 1131 by Walter fitzRichard of Clare and first colonised by a group of monks from their mother house l’Aumone in France. The problem prompted the Crown to purchase the property in 1901 for its preservation.

Tintern Abbey was the first Cistercian monastery established in Wales.

July 13, 1798 By William Wordsworth About this Poet William Wordsworth was one of the founders of English Romanticism and one its most central figures and important intellects. Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour.