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Jervaulx Abbey |
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Jervaulx Abbey North Yorkshire Jervaulx abbey is one of my all times favourite Cistercian monasteries situated in North Yorkshire and lies in private land. Jervaulx was originally established in 1145 in Wensleydale. A founder of Acarius Fitz Bardolph for a community of Savigniac monks, led by Peter de Quincy. BY 1150 nine Byland monks were added to the community. The Wensleydale site soon became unsatisfactory and in 1156 it was abandoned in favour of a new one some 16 miles to the east, on the south bank of the River Ure or Jore, from which the abbey took its medieval name of Joreval.
Its seems, that the monks were planning to move by the time Byland abbey took over. Abbott John of Kinstan, Jervaulx saw his community of monks rapidly growing through the 1150’s and 1160’s in which sees the cloister ranges and church were remodelled or rebuilt towards the end of the twelfth century. The abbey was suppressed in 1537, as a direct result of Abbot Adam Sedbar’s involvement in the Pilgrimage of Grace, and its demolition began early in 1539. The site was one of the first to be excavated in 1805 and today the ruins remains are left as John Clarledge found them. The church and cloister became a garden in the park of seventeenth century. Jervaulx Hall and further excavation was carried out by William St John Hope in 1905 to 1907. When the church was excavated in the first decade of the nineteenth century, large mosaic tile floors were found in place, but these no longer survive. The whole of the precinct survives as earthworks in the parkland surrounding the abbey ruins, but only two non claustral buildings survive above ground level: a fragmentary watermill on the banks of the River Ure, and a much altered building of the thirteenth century date (now converted to a house) well to the west of the central area. This has been described as a great house, but it’s very much unlikely. Interesting Facts Jervaulx had 12,000 sheep’s on its lands and was exporting wool in great quantity. It’s also interesting to note that the abbey was involved in horse breeding and had a high reputation for quality of its breeds. By 1333, Jervaulx was clearing woodland at Askrigg in Wensleydale and completely removed at least four medieval villages in the area. It was siad that first Abbot of Jeravulx, was travelling from Byland in Ryedale, yorkshire, to the original site. When the monks lost their way in the thick woods but were guided to safety by a vision of the Virgin Mary and Child. Pilgrimage of Grace The name given to the religious rising in the north of England, 1536. The cause of this great popular movement, which extended over five counties and found sympathizers all over England, was attributed to Robert Aske, the leader of the insurgents, to "spreading of heretics, suppression of houses of religion and other matters touching the commonwealth". And in his "Narrative to the King", he declared. The movement broke out on 13 October, 1536, immediately following the failure of the Lincolnshire Rising; and Robert Aske, a London barrister of good Yorkshire family, who had been to some extent concerned in the Lincolnshire rising, putting himself at the head of nine thousand insurgents, marched on York, which he entered. Savigniac Savigniac monks who came over from Savigny in France and were later converted to the Cistercian Order and in doing so became very well off due to the scores of Manors and some 1,500 acres of demesne |
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