Ripon Cathedral – 10th centuryInside Ripon CathedralRiponDurham Cathedral 11th centuryThe next four images were beautiful Abbeys from the same time period as the above.They were intact and servicing people until the 16th centurywhen Henry VIII, in order to become more powerful dissolved the monasteries. In the process he ordered the roofs to be torn off causing the buildings to decay.Several hundred of these magnificent buildings would be “alive and well” if not for short sighted people like Henry VIII. Sad to think that close to 1,000 of these structures, like Notre Dame in Paris, could still be standing all around England today…
Murphys on the Move 
Very sad indeed☹
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Wow, those really are beautiful structures. It’s amazing that they are still standing at all.
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Wow!
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