Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire: the nave
Country | UK: England |
City | Rievaulx Abbey |
Subject Date | 1230 |
Image Date | 1860 |
View | Interior |
Style | Gothic |
Medium | Photoprint |
Library Reference | LS 20940 |
Orientation | Portrait |
Colour Info | Colour |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Abbeys ; Arcades ; Ruins ; Arches |
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.
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