The Monmouth Rebellion was a late echo of the English Civil War (Wikipedia has a good entry about it).
The Puritans' damage was very intentional, all over England. I'll be posting some pics soon of Glastonbury Abbey, which Cromwell and his boys utterly destroyed (with drawing and quartering the abbot as a diversion). Rick On Jun 13, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Knarf wrote: > Where is this? Quite the impressive structure! > > And what's with those Puritans? I'm sure they don't like icons or anything > ostentatious when it comes to - well, just about anything. Was the damage > intentional or collateral to the revolt? > > Both lovely images, BTW. Beautiful building, very well captured! > > Cheers, > > frank > > > > On 13 June, 2015 1:28:33 PM EDT, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Clutter on the lawn made a straight-on photo impractical, so obliques >> will have to do. >> >> The whole impressive thing: >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18038169 >> >> Detail; it seems that the lower row of statuary was damaged by Puritans >> in the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18038170&size=lg >> >> (K-5, DA 16-45 and 50-200) >> >> Comments appreciated! >> >> Rick > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
