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10 Historic Monuments Which are Fading Away
By siliconindia
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Friday, 14 October 2011, 21:29 IST
8. Quarr Abbey, Ryde, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Quarr Abbey is a monastery between the villages of Binstead and Fishbourne on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The present imposing brick construction was completed in 1912. A community of about a dozen monks maintains the monastery's regular life and the attached farm. In the vicinity are a few remains of the original twelfth-century abbey, an archway, a delicate stone window, fragments of a wall and a barn incorporated into a farmhouse. The monastery survived as both a religious institution and defensive structure, until its destruction in the sixteenth century during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
The medieval ruins are in need of repair, as are the monastic buildings and surrounding infrastructure.
