Abbey gatehouse, Cerne Abbas, Dorset mb-code GNIT188 Design for a parabolic swing

Design for a parabolic swing bridge

The subject is taken from Keats' poem of the same title

22 July 1871

Labourers at work on the Metropolitan Railway and the Fleet Ditch

looking away from a book held upon his knee in a reading position

Abbey gatehouse, Cerne Abbas, Dorset mb-code GNIT188 Design for a parabolic swingAbbey gatehouse, Cerne Abbas, Dorset, 1924 1926. The village of Cerne Abbas grew up around a Benedictine Abbey established in 987. The abbey was closed in 1539 during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries, and today only the gatehouse and part of the abbot's porch remain. A print from Hutchinson's Britain Beautiful, edited by Walter Hutchinson, volume II, 1924 1926.