Description:The west front of the Cistercian Abbey of Croxden which was founded in the 1170s by Bertram de Verdun, lord of Alton. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538 the roofs were removed and the buildings quarried for building stone. The monastic ruins are the most extensive in Staffordshire.
This image is a glass negative photograph of an earlier cabinet card. Alfred McCann probably took it to re-use an older image as one of his range of postcards.
Photographer: Alfred McCann, photographers of High Street, Uttoxeter.