Rievaulx Abbey: History
• Sources
• Foundation
• Consolidation
• Rise and Fall
• Dissolution

Rievaulx Abbey: Buildings
• Precinct
• Church
• Cloister
• Sacristy
• Library
• Chapter House
• Parlour
• Dormitory
• Warming House
• Day Room
• Refectory
• Kitchen
• Lay Brothers' Range
• Novices' quarters
• Abbot's Lodging
• Infirmary
• Guesthouse
• Gatehouse

Rievaulx Abbey: Lands

Rievaulx Abbey: People

The Church - Notes

1. See P. Fergusson and S. Harrison, Rievaulx Abbey (New Haven and London, 1999), p. 47.
2. See R. Marks, ‘Cistercian window glass in England and Wales’, in Cistercian Art and Architecture in the British Isles, ed. C. Norton and D. Park (Cambridge, 1986), pp. 211-227 at pp. 218-219.
3. See Fergusson and Harrison, Rievaulx Abbey, p. 178.
4. M. Cassidy-Welch, Monastic Spaces and their Meanings (Turnhout, 2001), p. 163.
5. D. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages (Leominster, 1998), p. 227.
6. See J. C. Dickinson, Monastic Life in Medieval England (London, 1961), p. 20.
7. See M. Cassidy-Welch, Monastic Spaces and their Meanings, p. 233.