Just outsode Oxford, these ruins were thought to be the burial place of Fair Rosamond, one of the Pre-Raphaelite heroines. Describing a visit in 1854 Edward wrote: 'The day has gone down magnificently; all by the river's side I came back in a delirium of joy, the land was so enchanted with bright colours, blue purple in the sky, shot over with a dust of golden shower, and in the water, a mirror'd counteriart, ruffled by a light west wind - and in my mind pictures of old days, the abbey, the long processions of the faithful, basnners of the cross, copes and crosiers, gay knights and ladies by the river bank ...'