Curatorial description (Accessed: 30 October 2014)
Fenton travelled to the Lake District in 1860, photographing natural sights such as Lake Windermere and Ara Force, and man-made structures including Furness Abbey, near Barrow-in-Furness. Fenton made at least twenty-two photographs of the abbey. Travel to the abbey was difficult until the arrival of the railway in 1846, so few images of the ruins were in existence when Fenton travelled to the area. Furness Abbey was founded by 1127 and became a Cistercian Abbey in 1150. Three visitors to the Abbey can be seen in this photograph; the girl stood in the archway is possibly one of Fenton's daughters.
