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

Rievaulx Abbey: History - Consolidation

1. Matthew of Rievaulx’s summation of Abbot William in his poem about the founding abbot, composed in the 1220s, cited in Fergusson and Harrison, Rievaulx Abbey, p. 45.
2. Fergusson and Harrison, Rievaulx Abbey, p. 55.
3. For detailed discussion of the quarries and the various kinds of stone used at Rievaulx, see J. R. Senior, ‘The stonework and quarries’, in Fergusson and Harrison, Rievaulx Abbey, appendix A (pp. 215-219). On the use of Purbeck marble, see p. 216.
4. Walter Daniel, Life of Aelred, p. 37. This citation is from I Hebrew XII:14.
5. Cited in Mullin, The Cistercians in Yorkshire (Washington, 1932), p. 8. For references see Chronicle of Melrose, cited in Atkinson, Cartulary of Rievaulx, p. liii; Dugdale, Monasticon, V, pp. 372, 453.
6. Fergusson and Harrison, Rievaulx Abbey, p. 38.
7. See Burton, ‘Kirkham Priory’, pp. 7 ff.