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About:

The Corbel Project and its Author

 

The author of this website and its contents is Roy Romsey. He was born within a stone's throw of Romsey Abbey at Abbey Water, but it was not until his return from many years of overseas travel and a casual membership of the local history group in 2014 that he developed a deeper interest in the history of Romsey and its Abbey.

 

     The Corbel Project was started as a refreshing break from his attemps at writing 30 short storys over the winter of 2013/14, and has proved a catylyst for further photographic projects within the abbey: its graffiti, stainglass windows, memorials, capitals and artifacts; all of which will in due course have their own devoted websites.  

 

     In addition to giving background information to the corbels along with a few interesting stonemason tales, the websitesite also shows approximately 500 photographs and their locations. there are 56 corbel tables on the ground floor and upper level, and over 400 close-ups of individual corbels.

 

     Since publishing this corbel website, Roy, has taken a further 9,000 images for a Graffiti and inventory project during the summer of 2015. Alec Morley assisted with the important task of recording the location of each photograph, -   a further 2-3,000 images still await to be taken. he has published a taster website here.

 

     The winter of 2016/17 will be spent editing and adding data to each photograph in readiness for new searchable websites to be created. 

 

     Watch this space.

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Corbels at Romsey Abbey

 painting by Rex Trayhorne

Romsey Abbey corbels and grotesques history architecture
Romsey Abbey corbels and grotesques history architecture

Site last updated 30th June 2020

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Corbels at Romsey Abbey
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