Mottisfont No. 1 / Modesfunte / Mortelhunte / Mortesfunde / Motes Founton / Motesfonte / Motesfunda / Motsone / Motte Fount / Mottesfont / Mottesfount / Mottson
Image copyright © Len Williams, 2013
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The rear view of Mottisfont Abbey still shows how the original Priory Church was laid out. The Eastern end, (on the left), still displays some of the arches that would have marked the location of the High Altar. The Nave was converted into the rooms of the house following the dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Len Williams, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2013 by Len Williams [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3589271] [accessed 13 September 2018]
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view of church exterior - porch - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Some of the old pillars from the priory as you walk in the entrance at Mottisfont".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Nicholls, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 June 2015 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4607060] [accessed 13 September 2018]
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view of church exterior - priory - cellarium
Scene Description: Source caption: "The thirteenth century cellarium, or undercroft, of the original Augustinian priory remains beneath the country house which was built in the sixteenth century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Dixon, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2017 by David Dixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5468460] [accessed 13 September 2018]
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view of church exterior - south porch and portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Entrance at Mottisfont. Most likely this was the entrance to Mottisfont priory once till it was made into a house in Tudor times".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Nicholls, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 June 2015 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4607056] [accessed 13 September 2018]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Present view of the mansion, originally an Augustinian priory founded in 1201; the nave of the church became the centre part of the mansion built after the Dissolution
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MorganBurness, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2014 by MorganBurness [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mottisfont.Abbey.House.JPG] [accesed 13 September 2018]
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view of church exterior - spring
Scene Description: said to be the original after which the abbey was named [spring = fons, fontis] -- The entry in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU3261827007] reads: "Spring source. Of medieval origins, now C18, repaired C20. Rubble flint bowl with rubble carved stones at bottom. 3m diameter bowl some 3m deep, wall of bowl opens out on one segment into stream. C18 plain iron fencing around rest."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 January 2019)