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 refectory

1. Walter Daniel, Vita Aelredi, The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx, ed. and tr. F. M. Powicke (Oxford, 1950). , p. 11.
2. P. Fergusson and S. Harrison, Rievaulx Abbey (New Haven and London, 1999), pp. 42-3.
3. Stephen of Sawley, Treatises, tr. J. F. O’Sullivan (Kalamazoo, 1984), ch. 12, ‘Meals’ pp. 103-4, at p. 104.
4. Arnulph of Bohéries, Speculum Monachorum (A Mirror for Monks) Patrologia Latina 184, col. 1175.
5. Hailes visitation 1399, see C. Harper-Bill, ‘Cistercian visitation in the late Middle Ages: the case of Hailes Abbey’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 53 (1980), pp. 103-114, at p. 109.