Jervaulx Cistercian Abbey, site of post-Dissolution grand house and gardens and World War II storage structures

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History & significance

Jervaulx Cistercian Abbey is a scheduled ancient monument located in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, comprising the substantial ruins of a Cistercian monastery founded in the twelfth century. The abbey reached considerable architectural and economic importance during the medieval period, developing extensive estates and demonstrating the typical spatial organisation of a major monastic foundation. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century, the site was subsequently converted to domestic use, with a grand house and formal gardens established among the abbey remains. The monument preserves evidence of medieval monastic occupation alongside later post-Dissolution modifications and twentieth-century structures erected during the Second World War.

Jervaulx Cistercian Abbey, site of post-Dissolution grand house and gardens and World War II storage structures is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020493. View the official record →

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