In lamenting the ruinous state of Llanthony Abbey, Evans and Britton state the following: 'The character of this ruin consists in the great and solid, as that of Tintern Abbey does in the light and beautiful; but these present a different appearance from most other ruins of this description. No clinging tendrils of ivy covers its massy fragments, no aged yews add gloom to its venerability; the few plants and shrubs which spring from the crevices, or fringe the margins of its walls, tend to conceal no part of the building.'

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