2-699-149 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Ruins of the Convent of St. Clare', c1872. The Abbey of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate in London was a monastery of Franciscan nuns established in the late 13th century. Some of the abbey buildings survived until their destruction by fire in 1797. From Old and New London, Vol. II: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]