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Tintern Abbey

An advertisement for the attractive ruin that is Tintern Abbey

Advert 1972 3 mins

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Overview

Tintern Abbey, built for the Cistercian order of monks, has proved to be a very attractive ruin since the Dissolution caused the removal of its roof and valuables and the viewer, whom the film-makers/commissioners hope is a potential tourist to the area - is exhorted to visit before Shakespeare's "old common arbitrator, Time" dissolves it completely.