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 Dissolution - the end of monastic life at Rievaulx

1. Cited in Burton, ‘The estates and economy’, p. 68 (Testamenta Eboracensia II (Surtees Soc., 79, 1884), pp. 20-21).
2. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, pp. 181-2.
3. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, p. 175.
4. See Woodward, Dissolution of the Monasteries, pp. 55 ff; Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, p. 172.
5. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars, Nuns, p. 185.
6. These suppression documents are printed as appendix D in Fergusson and Harrison, Rievaulx Abbey, pp. 226-237.
7. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, p. 177.
8. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, pp. 173-4.
9. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, pp. 174-5.
10. In 1549 William divorced his ‘pretensed wife’ and was deprived of his vicarage; in 1554 he was ordered to perform public penance; Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, p. 181.
11. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, p. 181.
12. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, pp. 182-3.
13. See C. Cross, ‘Community solidarity among Yorkshire religious after the Dissolution’, Monastic Studies: the continuity of tradition, ed. J. Loades (Bangor, 1990), pp. 245- 254 at p. 249.
14. Cross, Monks, Friars and Nuns, p. 184.