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Rievaulx Abbey North Yorkshire
Today the ruins stand in a precinct of some one hundred acres of land near to the River Rye, within the eighteenth century landscape of Duncombe Park. The bad part is for the archaeologists are actually the interpretation of the ruins and the enormous scale that presents difficult in the dating of the structure.
Interesting Facts Abbot Ailred shrine was placed in the second bay of the new presbytery, behind the high altar, where it remained until 1536. In 1250, a shrine was built in the west wall of the chapter house for William the first abbot. The early fourteenth century saw massive troubles in England. The defeat at Bannockburn by the Scottish armies led by Robert the Bruce on the English in 1314. The Scottish armies travelled north looting many of the monasteries in the local areas. When King Edward II herd that the Scottish armies were at Shaw Moor and the battle of Byland was fought saw once more the English defeated who retreated to York, the Scots plunder Rievaulx before they withdrew from England. In 1536 Rievaulx income was less than £200 had been suppressed, resulting in the north in the outbreak of rebellion, the Pilgrimage of Grace. On December 3 1538, abbot Blyton and twenty-one monks surrendered their abbey and Thomas Cromwell supervised the dissolution of the monasteries. They were one hundred and forty lay brothers by 1160 living and working at the abbey.
Rievaulx tiled floor and now held at the British Museum
Pictures taken by the author of the website
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Abbot Bernard was granted the
vills (Townships) of Giff and Tilleston by Walter Espec a Royal
Justiciar and lord of Helmsley, to build his 
The
first excavations was carried out by Charles Peers in 1919 and 1929,
during which time the ruins, many exposed for the first time since
their demolition in 1538 to 1539, and now conserved for public display.
The first building by abbot, William, was a narrow unaisled church
with a single chapel, which has been traced by geophysical survey
below the north cloister. The death of abbot William who never saw
the his community grew and his building campaign finished was taken
over by David who founded Revesby abbey, and had Scottish routes
who started to build the church and chapter house in about 1150.
