Coverham Abbey Yorkshire antique print Grose's "Antiquities .." 1785
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Coverham Abbey Yorkshire antique print. Original copper-plate engraved antique print of Coverham Abbey, North Yorkshire, England, a Premonstratensian monastery originally founded at Swainby in 1190 by Helewisia, daughter of the Lord Chief Justice Ranulf de Glanville. It was refounded at Coverham in about 1212 by her son Ranulf fitzRalph, who had the body of his late mother reinterred in the chapter house at Coverham. Antique print from ‘The Antiquities of England and Wales’ by Francis Grose, dated in the plate July 20, 1785. A scarce ite.