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Title: The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Lefroy, William, 1836-1900
Subjects: Abbeys
Publisher: London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ody of the old church was made toserve as the transept of the new. It is hardly neces-sary to say that the arrangement of the cloister andconventual buildings would alone make such a changeof plan practically impossible. The ritual and architectural east end must alwayshave been, as now, at the south, and the nesternentrance at the north end of the nave. It is perfectlytrue that the transept contains all the original roundarched work of LEspec which now remains aboveground, but there is no reason for supposing thatthe nave either required or received any subsequentaddition. It was by no means uncommon for theritual choir to extend over the transept opening and * In civitatibus in castellis aut villis, nulla nostra con-struenda sunt ccenobia, sed in locis a conversatione hominumsemotis.—Instituta Capit. Gen. Ordinis Cisterc. A.D. 1134.Quoted by E. Sharpe, Part I. of his Cist. Architecture. Cf. also Oppida Franciscus—magnas Ignatius urbes,Bernardus valles—montes Benedictus amabat.
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Rievaulx. several bays of the architectural nave, and this was,in all probability, the case at Rievaulx. The normal eastern arm of Cistercian churcheswas originally short, the choir being placed in andwest of the crossing.* Rievaulx has been alteredand enlarged, but it has not been turned round. Itsarchitectural choir, or eastern limb, probably owes itsextent and beauty to the emulation excited in theminds of the monks by the ambitious and successfulwork of their neighbours of Byland. At one time itseemed as if thewanderings ofthat Ulysses ofabbeys were toend on the banksof the Rie at apoint nearly op-posite Rievaulx ;and though thedisturbing influ-ence of the bellsand chanted ori-sons of Bylandceased with itsremoval to itsnext resting -place, an eagerrivalry in build-ing and adorn-ment remained totestify to the his-torical fact of itsformer proximity.It has been trulysaid that TheCistercian Ab-beys in York-shire, which arethe earliest pureGothic works inthis country, seemto have been

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