Description:The remains of Ranton Abbey are situated one mile to the west of Ranton, in a private wooded park. The fifteenth century church tower still survives.
The abbey was an Augustinian house, founded in the twelfth century by Robert and Celestia Noel of Ellenhall.
The large house is known as Abbey House, built c.1820. The building was damaged by fire during the Second World War whilst occupied by Dutch soldiers.
In the early nineteenth century the estate was purchased by the first Earl of Lichfield.
This photograph is from an album of local views taken by Edward King Tenison (1805-1878), a highly regarded photographer in the early decades of photography. His family seat was at Kilronen, Roscommon, Ireland and he married Louisa Mary Anne Anson, daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield, also an accomplished amateur photographer. These images were probably taken during Tenison's visits to his wife's family home, Shugborough.