Category: Rievaulx
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April Fools’ Day
And so we fly into April. Tempus fugit. I was planning on an April Fool, but didn’t have enough foresight. And by the time I post this, it’ll be past the 12 o’clock deadline. So, instead, I’ll just post about the history of the tradition. But first, my morning’s exercise. With the weather looking pretty…
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The Ionic Temple, Rievaulx Terrace
They say that things often come in threes, and that certainly seems to be the case for me this week, as I have encountered the Duncombe family for the third time. In 1687, a nouveau riche banker named Sir Charles Duncombe purchased the Rievaulx and Helmsley estates for the staggering sum of £90,000. He was…
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Rievaulx Abbey
The image of the life Cistercian monk is one of austerity, hard manual work and self-sufficiency, and one of the first Cistercian monasteries to be founded in the North of England was in the valley of the River Rye at Rievaulx, in 1132. Seen here from the National Trust’s Rievaulx Terrace property, it grew to…