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61g. The Irish Tintern Abbey and Saltmills, Co. Wexford SCENES from Southeast IRELAND The RING OF HOOK - places to visit - The Hook Peninsula, County Wexford Tintern Abbey, Co. Wexford, is the sister to Tintern Abbey in Wales, and a Cistercian Abbey founded around 1200 by William, the Earl Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, Lord of Leinster. The initial Cistercian monks came from the sister Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire, Wales. The substantial and partially restored ruin consists of the nave, chancel, tower, chapel and cloister. It was partly converted into living quarters in 1541 in the aftermath of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and subsequent further developments.
The Abbey was actually occupied by the Colclough family from the 16th
century until the 20th century - the 1960s in fact!
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The Irish Tintern Abbey in Co. Wexford
The Irish Tintern Abbey: The beautiful setting of Tintern Abbey by Tintern Stream, picture from Tintern Bridge
Tintern Abbey: View from the north-west: the buttressed chancel, the tower and the arches of the nave.
Tintern Abbey: The exterior north walls of the chancel and tower. The pointed arch would have been where the north transept was.
Tintern Abbey: The tourist entrance, ticket and information centre to the abbey.
Tintern Abbey: One of the added 18th century castellated towers.
Tintern Abbey: The nave, tower and Lady Chapel beyond where the south transept would have been, just the 'ghost' of a large pointed arch is left in the south lower half of the tower wall.
Tintern Abbey: The Lady Chapel and east end of the Chancel. The fine battlemented walls around the abbey were built by Sir Vesey Colclough in the 18th century.
Tintern Abbey: Nave, tower and Lady Chapel.
Tintern Abbey: View of Tintern from the picnic and cafe area. Where the nun is sitting would have been part of the Cloister Garth - the Abbey garden. The church was originally a cruciform shape but the only standing remains are the chancel, crossing tower, the centre aisle of the nave and the Lady Chapel of the south transept, all of which date to around 1300 when a major reorganisation of the abbey took place and the buildings of the original ~1200 buildings were largely replaced.
Tintern Abbey: Detail of the nave arches.
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Tintern Abbey: The gaping hole of the east window of the chancel, but still some of the fine carving of the 'stone window frame' can still be seen. The windows on the left will be from later occupation.
Tintern Abbey: The carved figure at the top of the chancel's east window ...
... and on the left two other carvings in the chancel, the middle picture is that of another ecclesiastical figure.
Tintern Abbey: The new window in the chancel after the style of the medieval stone masons.
Tintern Abbey: Under the tower are numerous reminders of long-gone sections of the Abbey, e.g. the transepts and later adaptations for domestic living.
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Tintern Abbey: An old medieval Christian cross-slab gravestone.
Tintern Abbey: The fireplace in the chancel, a remnant of when the Colclough family converted the tower, chancel, nave and Lady Chapel into domestic quarters in the late 16th century. The last member of the Colclough family to live in the abbey was Lucey Marie Biddulph Colclough who only finally left in 1959.
Tintern Abbey: The lovely stone ribbed vaulting of the Lady Chapel.
Tintern Abbey: Left: Some traces of the fine stone carving from the original abbey. Tintern Abbey: Right: A simple model of how Tintern Abbey once looked.
Tintern Abbey: Some of the 18 grotesque medieval carved heads high up on the north wall of the chancel corbel table. See three detailed pictures below too.
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An old fireplace and evidence of earlier roofs!
Some of the oak panelling from the early 17th century, tree ring dated gives a tree felling period of 1600 to 1620.
Timber (woven sticks, wattle) and daub (caked mud) construction from the later 16th century
Tintern Abbey: The very nice cafe at Tintern Abbey - the monks would have approved!
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In a chapel there is a display of the family portraits of the Colclough family from Tudor times to the early 20th century.
The Colclough family in Tudor Ireland - portrait of Sir Thomas Colclough
The Colclough family in Stuart Ireland - portrait of Lady Francis Colclough and the Colclough Coat of Arms
The Colclough family in Georgian Ireland - portraits of Sir John Colclough and Colonel Sir Versey Colclough
The Colclough family in Union Ireland - portrait of Louisa Colclough's husband Captain Franc Biddulph.
A brief pictorial history of Ireland's Tintern Abbey in County Wexford
A view of Tintern Abbey in 2022 Tintern Bridge, Tintern Church and Saltmills Saltmills is a small village located in the County Wexford, in Ireland a few miles south of Tintern Abbey. The village is located at the head of a small inlet that enters Bannow Bay and the inlet goes up to near Tintern Abbey (pictures below). The village received its name from the medieval mills that existed just outside the village
The head of the inlet near the Tintern Bridge over the Tintern stream
The 18th century battlemented Tintern Bridge over the inlet into which Tintern Stream runs, part of Bannow Bay. The head of the inlet from Bannow Bay that runs up to near Tintern Abbey, into which Tintern Stream runs.
Picture of Tintern Abbey from the south-west on Tintern Bridge - the nave, tower, Lady Chapel and Chancel.
The few remains of an 18th century flourmill built in the 1790s by John Colclough.
Tintern Bridge over Tintern Stream (river) which spans the tidal inlet.
The ruins of the old single cell medieval parish church of Tintern, a lay chapel, south-east of Tintern Abbey, Co. Wexford.
The church was largely rebuilt in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
Some of the original tracery of the medieval windows just about survives, now all bricked up.
Some 'non-blocked' tracery of a medieval window survives More on the Irish Tintern Abbey, Co. Wexford, Ireland (adapted from Wikipedia) Tintern Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located on the Hook
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Portrait of a Colclough lady playing the lute.
