Tintern Abbey

a ruined abbey situated on the banks of the Wye in Monmouthshire, England, about seventeen miles northwest of Bristol. It was built for the Cistercian monks in the thirteenth century. The vaulted roof and the tower have fallen, but the walls remain. The arches, windows, and doorways are considered fine specimens of architecture. The ruin is one of the most picturesque in Europe. "Tintern Abbey," says Chambers, "owes not a little of its celebrity to Wordsworth's poem, entitled Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye, though in reality the poem has nothing whatever to do with the Abbey, which is not once mentioned or alluded to in it."