Abbey gatehouse, Cerne Abbas, Dorset mb-code GNIT188 Labourers at work on the

Labourers at work on the Metropolitan Railway and the Fleet Ditch

'John Greenleaf Whittier

Designed by William Adam

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

Design for a parabolic swing bridge

Abbey gatehouse, Cerne Abbas, Dorset mb-code GNIT188 Labourers at work on theAbbey 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.