Rievaulx

Rievaulx

      ruined Cistercian abbey, Ryedale district, administrative county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. It lies in the seclusion of a deep valley to which it has given its name, in the North York Moors National Park. The monastery was the mother church of the Christianizing mission of St. Bernard of Clairvaux in northern England. Of the great 12th-century church, 125 yards (115 metres) long, the chancel and transept walls still stand to full height and exhibit some of the best English Gothic architecture extant. On the eastern terrace overlooking the abbey are two classical temples built in 1750–60 by Thomas Duncombe, a local landowner, to decorate his estate.

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  • Rievaulx Terrace & Temples — is a site located in North Yorkshire, England overlooking Rievaulx Abbey and owned by the National Trust.The site is a grass covered terrace following a serpentine course across the side of a wooded escarpment overlooking the ruins of the Abbey.… …   Wikipedia

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  • Rievaulx, Abbey of — • English monastery founded in 1131 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 …   Catholic encyclopedia

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  • Aelred von Rievaulx — Aelred von Rieveaulx, zeitgenössische Abbildung aus der Handschrift De Speculo Caritatis, ca. 1140 Der Heilige Aelred von Rievaulx (* 1110 in Hexham, Northumberland; † 12. Januar 1167 in Rievaulx, North Riding of Yorkshire) war ein… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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