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Reconstruction of Shrewsbury Abbey (image)
This is a reconstruction of the Shrewsbury Abbey area c1630. By this time the monastery had been closed for almost 100 years. However the ruins of the chancel could still have been seen and other ex-monastic buildings had new uses. The Abbey church was retained as the parish church of Holy Cross; the abbot's house was in private domestic use, the western monastic warehouse was in part-industrial use as can be seen by all the tanning pits; lastly much of the abbey grounds had been turned into leisure gardens.
(Image courtesy of Shropshire Archives)
