Abbey Ruins
ABBEY RUINS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1130961
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Ruins
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY RUINS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1130961
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Ruins
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY RUINS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY RUINS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Witton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE1717685727
Details
SE 18 NE
4/37
15.2.67
EAST WITTON OUT PARISH
JERVAULX PARK Abbey Ruins
(formerly listed as Jervaulx Abbey ruins under General)
GI
Ruins of Cistercian house moved to this site in 1156. Early English.Sandstone ashlar. Church of nave, transepts and choir, with cloister on south side of nave, flanked by chapter house to east, kitchen and dorter to south. Footings of church stand up to about one metre high, showing an aisled nave, transepts with eastern aisles and short choir with lady chapel. Pier bases octofoiled with keels. Lady Chapel, now containing stone coffins. In the north transept a complete stone altar, and part in the south transept. At the crossing a mutilated stone effigy of c1280, probably of Ralph Fitz-Henry. Several medieval grave covers in the nave.To the south of the church, the outline of the cloister. On its eastern side, with two round-headed windows, the chapter house, rectangular in plan, the walls standing approximately two metres high,containing a stone bench on inside. The vault rested on six surviving, though at time of resurvey recently vandalized, monolithic octagonal marble columns with crocket capitals. To the south, the square meat-kitchen walls standing to their full height, with two vast fireplaces. West of this, the monks' dormitory, its west wall standing in its full length to its full height, with nine lancet windows at first floor level. Parts of other buildings also, and innumerable architectural fragments all over the site.VCH i,p 280ff. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: SE1717685727
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321616
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York, (1907), 280
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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