go to home page go to byland abbey pages go to fountains abbey pages go to kirkstall abbey pages go to rievaulx abbey pages go to roche abbey pages
The Cistercians in Yorkshire title graphic
 

The gatehouse

1. Walter Daniel, Vita Aelredi, The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx, ed. and tr. F. M. Powicke (Oxford, 1950), p. 12.
2. Walter Daniel, Life of Aelred, p. 14.
3. P. Fergusson, ‘Porta patens esto’ p. 58. See too Coppack, ‘Description of Rievaulx’, p. 122; figure 3, p. 119.
4. Fergusson, ‘Porta patens esto’ p. 58.

<bibliography>