On the back of the print is the handwritten note: 'H.W. Taunt called this "site of supposed apse of Hean's Church"- but this was only his own idea and the more extensive excavations of 1922 did not bear out the idea. Hean's Church c700 AD was probably wooden. The apse of Ethelwold's Church c960 AD was found below the remains of the later Abbey Church i.e. behind the Abbey House. The cottages shown in the photograph were marked by Mrs Preston as "The Old Workhouse".'
Additionally there is another note stating: 'Stones excavated near site of Abingdon Abbey - close to house known as "The Abbey"- occupied 1943 by Maj. Gen C. Cooper - formerly by Sir Henry Bliss + before that by Edward Morland'.
This photograph was withdrawn from the open Red Box Collection for conservation reasons during the 2011-2012 Red Box Project.
The photograph was received by the National Buildings Record on 31st May 1943.
This is part of the Series: RBO01/34 Early Photographic Print Collection: Oxfordshire; within the Collection: RBO01 Early Photographic Print Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Donor: Preston
Photographer: Taunt, Henry William
Foundation, Religious House