'Gate of St. John's Abbey', 1898. 15th-century gatehouse at Colchester Abbey, a Benedictine monastic institution in Colchester, Essex, founded in 1095, was built c1400 to strengthen the abbey's defences following the Peasants' Revolt. The abbey was dissolved in 1539. From "Our Own Country, Volume VI". [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1898]
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