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 abbots of Rievaulx

1. This information is drawn essentially from The Heads of Religious Houses in England and Wales 940-1216, ed. D. Knowles and C. N. L. Brooke (Cambridge, 1972), p. 140; The Heads of Religious Houses in England and Wales II 1216-1377, ed. D. M. Smith (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 302-3, but also utilises C. Clay, ‘The early abbots of the Yorkshire Cistercian houses’, Yorkshire Arch. Journal (1955), pp. 8-43, at pp. 31-37; Cartularium Abbathiae de Rievalle, ed. J.C. Atkinson, Surtees Soc. 83 (1889), hereafter cited as Rievaulx Cartulary; Monks, Friars and Nuns, ed. C. Cross and N. Vickers (Huddersfield, 1995), pp. 167-185.
2. Clay, ‘Early abbots’, p. 36