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Tantara Gatehouse Etching – Then & Now

  • Post author:Chris Blunt
  • Post published:29/07/2022
  • Post category:Then & Now

Tantara Gatehouse Etching - Then & Now This then & now comparison shows an etching of the Tantara Gatehouse, one of the largest surviving fragments of the old Abbey of…

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Abbey Gatehouse Archway – Then & Now

  • Post author:Chris Blunt
  • Post published:26/07/2019
  • Post category:Then & Now
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Richard Morris cataloguing architectural mouldings in the Abbey Gatehouse passageway This image of an archway adjoining the Abbey Gatehouse was provided to KHAS from the collection of the late Reg…

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Buck Print of the Abbey – Then & Now

  • Post author:Chris Blunt
  • Post published:30/11/2018
  • Post category:Then & Now
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Buck brothers' engraving of the Abbey of St. Mary, Kenilworth This Then & Now comparison attempts to match the view of St Mary’s Abbey, Kenilworth as captured an engraving by…

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Work to begin on Kenilworth Abbey Gatehouse

  • Post author:Chris Blunt
  • Post published:30/01/2017
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The Abbey Gatehouse, sometimes known as the Tantara gatehouse, is one of the few surviving parts of the Abbey to still exist above ground and has the added distinction of…

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St Nicholas Church in 1963 – Then & Now

  • Post author:Chris Blunt
  • Post published:15/07/2016
  • Post category:Then & Now
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This pair of pictures from 1963 and 2016 shows the Abbey’s Tantara Gatehouse with St Nicholas' Church in the background. The 1963 shot is labelled as having been taken by a…

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‘Clappergate’ Stile – Then & Now

  • Post author:Chris Blunt
  • Post published:10/06/2016
  • Post category:Then & Now
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In the days when the Abbey Fields was a patchwork of farmers’ fields, the 'tumbledown' or 'clappergate' stile shown in this old postcard was situated in the Abbey’s Tantara Gatehouse…

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