Abbeys and Monasteries in Yorkshire

Mount Grace Priory is a picturesque 14th-century Carthusian monastery on the edge of the North York Moors. Austere furnishings and isolated individual cells kept the monks living as hermits within the larger community. One cell has been rebuilt to show how the monks lived and worked.
Staddlebridge, Osmotherley, North York Moors, Yorkshire, England, DL6 3JG

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Heritage Highlight: Highlight is the individual monk's cells
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Once the largest and most important monastery in England. Rievaulx (a Norman mangling of "Rye Vallis") is set in beautiful woodlands. The best-preserved building is the church, particularly the east end, fully three stories in height, showing off Early English flying buttresses.
Rievaulx, Helmsley, North York Moors, Yorkshire, England, YO62 5LB

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Heritage Highlight: Magnificent church with Early English buttresses
Photos of Rievaulx Abbey
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Roche Abbey is a beautiful 12th-century Cistercian monastery in a lovely valley setting. The abbey stands in 18th-century parkland designed by famed landscape gardener Capability Brown. The abbey has one of the best-preserved ground-plans of any Cistercian monastic site, enabling you to readily see the layout of the abbey buildings.
Maltby, Yorkshire, England, S66 8NW

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Heritage Highlight: 14th century gatehouse
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St Mary's Abbey was established in 1088 as a Benedictine monastery, situated on the north bank of the Ouse, inside the city walls of York. In time it grew to become one of the largest and most powerful monasteries in the north of England. Now only foundation walls of the original Norman buildings remain, in the lovely parkland setting of Museum Gardens.
Museum Gardens, York, Yorkshire, England, YO1 7FR

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Heritage Highlight: Once one of the largest and most important abbeys in England
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These Early English abbey ruins are the site of Count Dracula's (fictional) landing in England. More importantly, Whitby was the location of the 7th-century synod of early bishops which established the supremacy of Roman Catholicism over the Celtic church in Britain.
Abbey Lane, Whitby, Yorkshire, England, YO22 4JT

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Heritage Highlight: Site of the 7th century synod which effectively ended Celtic Christianity in the north of England
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