Portuguese Thetford Gallery 11

Monasteries II

An intimate look inside these sacred spaces—contrasting a brilliantly preserved, soaring vault of stone with an open-air ruinscape whose very walls were repurposed to build a town.

The soaring, intricately carved stone pillars and vaulted ceiling inside the church of the Jerónimos Monastery
Portugal: Looking up into the breathtaking, vaulted interior of the church within the *Mosteiro dos Jerónimos* at Belém, Lisbon.
The stark, roofless standing walls of the Church of St Mary at the ruins of Thetford Priory
Thetford: All that remains of the great Church of St Mary at Thetford Priory after the systematic destruction of the English Reformation. Fragments of its high-quality, robbed ashlar and flint masonry can be spotted today embedded throughout the fabric of older, vernacular buildings all over Thetford.

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