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Nunnery Annex


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Back of Vaulted Passage

Looking north along back of Nunnery Annex.
Jan. 2002
Detail of view in photo at left; showing back of vaulted passageway between front and back of Nunnery Annex.
Jan. 2002
Same back of vaulted passageway, at bottom left of this photo; back of Nunnery at right, Quadrangle of the Birds in center.
Jan. 2002
1873-1881 photograph of the back of the same passageway, the bottom half filled with rubble, with Alice Dixon Le Plongeon.
Photograph by Augustus Le Plongeon, ca.1873. Scanned from a high quality 35mm slide provided by the Getty Research Institute, taken from an original photograph in their collection. The image area of the photographs is ca. 3 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches. Reproduced with permission. Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (96.R.137-444).
The same area as in photo at left; showing unusually shaped and expertly fitted vault stones.
Jan. 2002
Lower two-thirds of same passageway, now cleared of rubble.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
Top of vaulted passageway, detail of area seen in photo above-center.
Jan. 2002
Detail of area seen  in photo at right.
Jan. 2002
Lower half of vaulted passageway, showing probably inset crosswall and beginning of drainage channel
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
 

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