 | Michael Theakston - 1883 - 200 pages
...of picturesque effect ; in which respect, the competent judgement of Whitaker has pronounced that ' It has no equal among the northern houses — perhaps not in the kingdom.' Its site is so shut in by rising ground and embosomed in trees, that the visitor, who has come from... | |
 | Rev. Thomas Parkinson - 1888 - 264 pages
...Rolls. BOLTON PRIORY. Bolton on the Wharfe, with its ruined priory, ' which for picturesque effect has no equal among the northern houses, perhaps not in the kingdom,' seems to be the home of legend and tradition, as it has been the paradise of poets and painters. Turner... | |
 | Percy Fry Kendall, Herbert Edward Wroot - 1924 - 1198 pages
...commentary : — "Bolton Priory" says Dr. Whitaker "stands upon a beautiful curvature of the Wharfe, on a level sufficiently elevated to protect it from...low enough for every purpose of picturesque effect. Opposite to the east window of the Priory church the river washes the foot of a rock nearly perpendicular,... | |
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The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, ' stands upon a beautiful curvature of the Wharf, on a level sufficiently elevated to protect it from inundations, and low enough for every purpose of picturesque effect. 
