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Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire: the nave of the church
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Ref No RIBA3832
Title Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire: the nave of the church
Designer
Artist
Bedford, Francis (1816-1894)
Country UK: England
Town/City Rievaulx Abbey
Subject Date 1230s
Image Date 1859
View Exterior
Style Gothic
Medium Photoprint
Colour / B&W Black & white
Credit RIBA Library Photographs Collection
Notes NOTES:
The first church for this large Cistercian monastery, founded by St Bernard of Clairvaux in 1132, was built between 1135 and 1145. The monastic buildings were extended in 1145-1167 and the chancel was rebuilt in a more elaborate style in c.1230. The abbey was dissolved in 1538.
Subjects
Arches
Abbeys
Churches
Ruins