Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain and Ireland
An antiquarian survey of British and Irish monastic and military ruins written by William Howitt and published in London by A.W. Bennett in 1864 for Victorian readers of topography and church history. Pen sketches of broken arches, window tracery and carved mouldings sit alongside albumen photographs of Romanesque doorways, giving designers overgrown masonry motifs, arch profiles and high-contrast stonework textures.
