Carved Frieze, Rievaulx Abbey - a photo on Flickriver

Exhibit in the new Rievaulx Abbey Museum opened on the site in recent years and displaying various finds and sculptural fragments from the abbey church.

There are few monastic ruins as beautiful as Rievaulx, the idyllic rural setting and good preservation of so much of the Abbey complex leave it with few peers, amongst the most majestic and dramatic ruined abbeys in the country.

The earliest parts of the Abbey church date back to the Norman period and suggest an austere building in line with Cistercian practice, however only the nave survived a major rebuilding campaign in the 13th century and this too has since succumbed to the hand of history, leaving us instead with the remarkable Early English Gothic choir and transepts, the defining features of the Abbey today.

There are significant portions surviving of the monastic complex, the grandest being the 13th century refectory. The remote location of the Abbey in part accounts for its good state of preservation, much less has been quarried away by succeeding generations following the Dissolution.

A visit to the Abbey isn't complete without a visit to the small on-site museum that opened in recent years and contains various interesting finds from the abbey-church.

There is always something melancholy about our ruined abbeys and priories, even the more complete ones like this. It is impossible not to mourn something of its faded glory and the cruel deprivations of Henry VIII's reign, but enough remains to enjoy this architectural jewel.
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/rievaulx-abbey/

Taken in: UK / England / Ryedale District / Rievaulx (show map)

Taken on: September 25, 2016

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