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Britain - Photo and History Pages Paradoxplace BRITISH ABBEYS AND CATHEDRALS
Byland Abbey Cistercian Abbey (originally Savigniac) in Yorkshire - 1177
Rievaulx Abbey Fountains Abbey
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Not that much is left standing at Byland Abbey. Founded in 1177 by a group of Cistercian monks originally from Furness Abbey after a long wander and several unsuccessful foundation attempts. Their penultimate attempt at locating was at a site within earshot of Riveaulx. There followed an extraordinary inter-monk dispute - the newcomers apparently followed a different timetable to the monks at Rievaulx, and the latter complained about the newcomers' bells interfering with their silence quality. Rather than change their daily timetable, the wanderers moved yet again - this time to what proved to be their final home, built on a less evocative (flat) site than the other two great Yorkshire Cistercian abbeys, but when it got its (gothic) act together it was just as grand . |
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