Wenlock Priory and Henry Adams
Wenlock Priory nestles at the end of an eighteen-mile-long limestone escarpment, the Wenlock Edge, found near the Welsh-English border in Shropshire, a county of rolling and ageless countryside. The Priory became an unfortunate victim of the architectural slaughter committed during the dissolution of the monasteries, and now stands as a ruined relic of the monastic order of Cluniac Benedictines, dating back to ad. 1017. The preserved medieval Priory house was to later become the cultural centre of the town, where […]
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