里茲修道院博物館 Abbey House

1、里茲修道院博物館 Abbey Housewelcome to the web site for abbey house museum, one of the hidden treasures of leeds. we hope that if you are not already one of our regular visitors, this site will tempt you to want to come and e_plore. a visit to abbey house will let you walk around the streets of _80s leeds,

2、step through the pages of a victorian nursery rhyme book and steep yourself in the romantic history of kirkstall abbey 里茲修道院博物館 abbey house museum的歷史: a monastery gatehouse william the conqueror gave the kirkstall area to one of his norman followers, ilbert de lacy in the _th century. a descendent o

3、f ilbert, henry de lacy, made a grant of land to the cistercian monks who started building kirkstall abbey in _52. the monks built a gatehouse to the north west of the abbey, which is the oldest part of abbey house and now houses the caf? in _39 the abbey was taken over by henry viii. the monks were

4、 forced to leave and the abbey fell into ruin. the last abbot, john ripley, made the gatehouse, abbey house, his home until his death in _68. a home from then on, abbey house became a residence, first for farmers, then for notable leeds families such as the butlers of kirkstall forge. in _88 colonel

5、 north bought the abbey and presented it to the people of leeds. he sold abbey house to colonel harding in _93 and the latter was responsible for the neo-gothic decoration still to be seen in the de lacy room and the oak staircase. a museum colonel harding retired to cambridge and more members of th

6、e butler family lived at abbey house until _25 when the house was sold to leeds corporation. abbey house opened to the public as a museum in _27. during the _50s victorian street scenes were added. in _95, the centenary of the reopening of kirkstall abbey by the city, it was decided to raise the money needed to redisplay and improve facilities for visitors. the heritage lottery fund, leeds city council and the friends of leeds museums made this work possible and work was completed in _. 超經(jīng)典英語美文5篇 學習英語,閱讀真的很重要,多閱讀一些短篇英語文章也是提高英語閱讀能力的一種. 下 新西蘭的飲食文化 新西蘭人的飲食習慣大體上與英國人相同,飲食以西餐為主.新西蘭的飲食文化是