2-329-559 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Combermere Abbey, Shropshire, home of Viscount Combermere, c1880. Originally a 12th century Cistercian monastery, Combermere Abbey was given to Sir George Cotton after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Sir Stapleton Cotton, who later became Viscount Combermere, had the house altered and extended in the 1810s. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Reverend FO Morris, Volume II, William Mackenzie, London, c1880. Wood-engraved plates after paintings by Benjamin Fawcett and Alexander Francis Lydon.