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Roche Abbey 13 (by mirandaeostre)

Rufford Abbey (by mirandaeostre)
Rufford Abbey Country Park is situated 17 miles north of Nottingham. The present day park once formed part of a 12th century Cistercian abbey and its estate. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536, the land and buildings began a slow transformation into a country house estate.One of its most famous owners was the Elizabethan aristocrat and property magnate George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, whose wife Bess of Hardwick built Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire. Rufford was later purchased by the Savile family of Yorkshire, and eventually became their principal country seat.The Abbey that visitors see today is a mixture of Cistercian remains and one wing of the later country house, dating from the early 1600s. The ornate steps and porch at the front of the Abbey were added by Anthony Salvin, the Victorian architect.

Rufford Abbey Country Park is situated 17 miles north of Nottingham. The present day park once formed part of a 12th century Cistercian abbey and its estate. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536, the land and buildings began a slow transformation into a country house estate.

One of its most famous owners was the Elizabethan aristocrat and property magnate George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, whose wife Bess of Hardwick built Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire. Rufford was later purchased by the Savile family of Yorkshire, and eventually became their principal country seat.

The Abbey that visitors see today is a mixture of Cistercian remains and one wing of the later country house, dating from the early 1600s. The ornate steps and porch at the front of the Abbey were added by Anthony Salvin, the Victorian architect.

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Yorkshire, England by rick ligthelm on Flickr.

Rievaulx was one of the first Cistercian abbeys to be founded in England. It was founded by Walter Espec, lord of Helmsley, in 1131. Surrounded by a massive agricultural and industrial estate, staffed by lay brothers, it was intended as the focus of a substantial family of daughter houses throughout northern Britain.

Rievaulx Abbey was suppressed in January 1538 under Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the monastries, and sold to the earl of Rutland in December of that year.

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Roche Abbey 13 (by mirandaeostre)

Roche Abbey, founded in 1147, is situated in the valley of the Maltby Beck, around nine miles from Doncaster and thirteen miles from modern Sheffield. The site was enclosed by steep limestone cliffs and bordered on Bruneswald, later known as Sherwood Forest.

The Dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII, spelt the end of monasticism in England and Wales. Abbot Henry Cundall and his seventeen monks gathered in the chapter-house at Roche for the last time on 23 June 1538, and signed the surrender deed to the king’s commissioners.

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