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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.
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